CORRESPONDANCE. 1670. Il the demonftrations there is noe neceffity hee fhould tranfcribe. There is one Pro- pofition amongll the rell wich Poffibly thofe in England will not iudge fufficiently demonllrated butt the demonftration of that, I have given fully & at large in fome other Papers which I have left in Monfieur Carcavi’s hands. This was what hee faid to mee as concerning the fealed Pacquct. Next hee gave mee a Printed fheet de Parheliis I5> ). I dont know faid hee whether or noe this bee gone into England. If it bee not Pray bee pleafed to fend this to Monfieur Oldenbourg with my than- kes for the great care & paines hee hath taken to fend mee the Tranfaftions. Next hee tooke up another bundle of Papers wich hee had laid premeditately on the bed & taking them up in his hands hee ltudied & confulted fome little time with in himfelfe whether hee fhould call for a candie & feale them in my Prefence or noe butt having paufed a little while noe faid hee thofe I will not feale I will give you them as they are. I referre myfelf to your faithfulnefïe not to fhew them to any body before my death which when you heare of you may read them your felfe & then feale them up & fend them into England by a fure conveyance to the Royall Society. I afked him to whom in the Royall Society, hee faid hee fent them to the Society in generall, butt Putt principally to my Lord Broncard whom hee faid hee knew to have a very cleare infight into the Dodtrine of Motion & whom (hee was well affured) did underltand thofe Points by what hee had feene by him already & hee hoped that for his fake & upon his requeft hee would digell thofe Papers which were con- ufedly written & which hee had not time to finifh foe that if hee iudged them worthy of the world the world might bee the better for them. Thefe Papers con- tame fome propofitions about motion rough call & in their firll draught & on the aper which wraps them up is written on the outfide de Motu per impulfum. This was ail hee fpoke as concerning his manufcript hee gave to mee & after that I c into a dilcourfe concerning his fickneffc, concerning what hee tooke, hee comp ained much of the ignorance, of the timidity, of the Galenical methods & Fjfj cl ‘P t i°n s with which they adminillcr Phyfick in thefe Parts, then faid hee Oh 1 ^ oétor Willis were here I believe I fhould recover butt thefe People have not a nght conception of Phyfick & yet the Ablell of them are about mee & c oy doe their bell. Then hee fell into a difeourfe concerning the Royal So- ciety in England wich hee faid was an alïembly of the Choifeft Witts in Chrif- tendome & of the finell Parts : hee faid hee chofe rather to depofitt thofe little a ours of his which God had blesflr & thofe pledges which to him were dearell ) Il s agit de l’ouvrage cité dans la Lettre N°. 1610, note 10. Il ne fut envoyé en Angleterre que quelques mois plus tard. Une traduction parut dans les Phil. Trans. N°. 60, du 20 juin 1670. J ) Un de ces médecins fut Moise Charas, apothicaire de Monsieur, frère du Roi. Voir la Lettre N °- 1 797, note 4.