“ There is an infinite variety in the Grain of Woods, and the Colours of them. Amongst others, there is a Tree, call'd a Bastard-Cedar, whose Wood is really so porous (though you would not guess so upon view) that being turn'd into Cups, Wine and Brandy will soak through at the bottom in a short time.
16. There are many kinds of wood in the Indies, besides that of the Acajou or Cajous, that breed no Wormes, and there is a Tree, call'd White-wood, in Jamaica, of which if you build Ships, they will never breed any Worm. ”

“ You already know, that the Transfusion of Calves-bloud did so temper the excessive heat of the Bloud of the Mad man, who for four moneths had run naked up and down the streets night and day; that he fell asleep two hours after the Operation, and that after ten hours sleep he awaken'd being in good sense, and that he remain'd in that good condition about two Moneths, until the too frequent company with his wife, and his debauches in Wine, Tobacco, and Strong Waters had call him into a very violent and dangerous Feaver. ”

“ The Second Argument is much insisted upon by Angeli, to make his solution clear to vulgar capacities; but the substance of all is, That the Canon-ball hath not only that violent motion, impressed by the Fire, but also all these motions proper to the Earth, which were communicated to it by the impulse received from the Earth: for, the Ball, going from West to East, hath indeed two impulses, one from the Earth, and another from the Fire ”

“ To Riccioli his third Argument Angeli answereth, desiring him to prove the sequel of his Major, which Riccioli doeth, supposing the curve, in which the heavy body descends, to be composed of many small right lines; and proving, that the motion is almost always equal in these lines, and after some debate, concerning the equality of motion in these right lines, Angeli answers, that the equality of motion is not sufficient to prove the equality of percussion and sound, but that there is necessary also equal angles of incidence ”

“ If one should undertake to dissipate all the false rumors, they spread touching this matter, one should never lay aside the Pen; but the best of it is, that men of discretion do so much disdain these wild reports, that they hearken no more to them but with disgust. ”

“ In Jamaica the Sugar cures faster in ten dayes, than in six moneths at Barbados: And, this happens in such places, as it rains for many Moneths at the same time, but you must know, that Raines there are sudden, and make no previous alteration in the Air before they fall, nor do they leave it moist afterwards. ”

“ And at a time, when his said Majesty sends all over the World recompenses and gratifications to those, that cultivate Sciences, I cannot believe, that in his Dominions there will be found Magistrates, resolved to condemne persons, that have no other Crime than that of consecrating all their interest and lahour to the Progress and Advancement of Knowledge and New Discoveries. ”

“ And because some Good men seem to be afraid of an Institution, they have heard but imperfectly of, and are jealous of what they have not had opportunities to understand, he hath therefore given a succinct as well as a genuine and polite account of the Reason, nature and designs of that Establishment, for the information of such, as have not yet met with their Excellent History. Whence it will appear to unprejudic'd men, That the Business of that Society is not to Dispute, but Work ”

“ The Head being cut off, dies instantly: and if you take out the Heart, the motion continues not long. But any quantity of the flesh will move, if pricked, and also of it self, for many houses after it is cut into quarters; and the very Joynts oi the Bones of the Shoulders and Legs (answering our Omo-plate and thigh, yet within the Shell) have their motion; and even though you prick only the Fat of it. But if you place these parts of the Tortoise in the Sun, they presently die. The Legs die as soon, in a manner, as cut off. ”

“ As soon as his death was bruited abroad, the Enemies of the Experiment begin to triumph, and soon after they publisht defaming books against us. I then resolved to be silent, but that silence made our Adversaries but keener. And I was surprised, when two moneths after I was advertised, that there were three Physitians that did not budge from the Widow, importuning her by promises of a great recompense, onely to let them use her name to accuse us before a Court of Justice for having contribut'd to the death of her husband by the Transfusion ”

“ There usually happened (as you may observe in Purcbas's Voyages) sicknesses in our ships about that time; and as soon as the sea-men pass the Tropick, they still use expressions of joy by firing of Guns in testimony of gladness for their safe arrival so far. I could not learn of the Old sea-men any other reason for the different condition of health, with which our ships now sail, in comparison of what our Ancestors experimented, than this: Generally all our Seamen and Passengers let blond in the Voyage before that time. ”

“ If you wonder to hear me mention a Calm thereabouts, where you would expect a constant Levantin-wind; I shall inform you, that 'tis no unusual thing to meet with Calms, if you approach within any distance of Land, (and betwixt these two Capes it is no very broad Sea, as the Map will shew you;) for though you see not any land, yet some gust, or land-wind will so poyse the Levantin-wind, thatyou shall have a perfect Calm: so as we went away out of our course to Jamaica, to avoid the Spanish Fleet, which saild before us ”

“ And thus we see in Diseases, that it is not the bare alteration of weather, but some peculiar mixtures in the Air, that incline to, or increase Consumptions and Coughs; since oftentimes the greatest Raines are less fatal to such bodies, as hazy weather tenders dangerously indisposed. ”

“ And in Man there is so exact a Machine, that a much less thing disorders him there, then here. And if a little Brandy should be mixt with a draught of water, it would not be effacacious; the coldness of the water being more powerful in bodies so tender (as we are there if hot) to hurt them, then so little brandy to correct it. But the other way washes the brandy down first, and as that goes, it fortifies nature everywhere to receive and distribute the subsequent cold liquor. ”

“ Jacob Gregory, a Fellow of the R. Society. RIccioli in his Almagestum Novum pretends to have found out several new demonstrative Arguments against the Motion of the Earth. Steph. de Angelis, conceiving his Arguments to be none of the strongest, taketh occasion to let the world see, that they are not more esteem'd in Italy, than in other places. Manfredi, in behalf of Riccioli, endeavours to answer the Objections of Angeli, and this latter replyes to Manfredi''s Answer. ”

“ Hence concludeth Angeli, that CSIA is no wayes near to a semi-circle; which is most sure, if so be the weight fall not to the Center of the Earth precisely in 6 hours: For, in this case of Riccioli, the weight falls to the Center of the Earth in 21 minutes and 53 seconds.
Manfredi in his Answer for Riccioli affirms, that Angeli understands not the Rule of Three, in giving out FS, for 11596 54356/224189, of which AC is 200000000000: And Angeli in his Reply affirms his Analogy to be so clear, that there can be nothing said more evident than it self to confirm it ”

“ Lygons, that a Tortoise hath three Hearts, and I found it false. For, although the resemblance of the two auricles be such, as also their bodies or flesh, as to deceive the unwary observer; yet is there but one Heart, triangular, and fleshy; the other two are only the auricles, yet of the same shape and body. The two auricles move at a several time from the Heart, and they are distanc'd from the Heart about an inch; and the passage fleshy (as I remember) and narrow, by which the bloud is infus'd into the heart. This Heart hath but one Ventricle ”

“ This Tree will never rot, and when 'tis dryed, growes so hard, that you cannot drive a nail into it.
13. 'Tis certain, what was said formerly, that the Tobacco, which growes on Salt-peter-Ground, flasheth as 'tis smoaked; but 'tis a mistake, that any Tobacco growes wilde, in Jamaica at least. The same nitrous Tobacco will not come to so good a colour, nor keep so long, as other Tobacco; insomuch that the Merchants oftentimes lose all their Tobacco in the Voyage for England, or Ireland ”

“ But your last Letters do so civilly engage me to impart to you the secret cabale, practised by some persons to embarass the History of that Mad man, that was cured six moneths ago by the means of the Transfusion, that I could not omit sending you the summe of what hath hitherto pass'd upon that subject, expecting mean time, what the Parliament of Paris, who, I believe, will be the judges and Arbitrators thereof, shall determine therein. ”

“ About the Manchinei-Tree, I shall only say, it is a wood of an excellent grain, equalling the Jamaica-wood, but large to four foot Diameter. The Spaniards turn it into beds, and the English usually flour their rooms with it in Jamaica; yet it is as malignant, I am told, as 'tis described.
22. The Birds, called by some Fregati, we call Men of war; their fat is good against aches, &c; so is that of A1legators, or the shell-fish, call'd Soldats, or Souldiers.
23. Of the shining or Fire-flies there is a great difference in Hispaniola and Jamaica, as to bigness. ”

“ The Swallowes in Jamaica, as hot as 'tis, depart in the Winter-Moneths, and the Wild-Ducks and Tale come hither then.
12. As for the Palme-trees, perhaps you would not imagine, that the so famed Tree, cal1'd a Cabbidge-tree, is one. I assure you, it is nothing else; and all .that is eaten as the Cabbidge, is, what sprouted out that year, and so is tender. If eaten raw, it is as good as new Almonds; and if boyl'd, excells the best Cabbidge. When that top is cut off the Tree dies. ”

“ They can contract and expand their Light as they fly, I am sure; and their light continues some days after they are dead: So that I am not of their mind, who affirm, that 'tis the flammula cordis in their tail.
24. The Wood-lice will eat Covers and Books, though printed, as I found to my cost. Of their eating of Timber, it is true they will eat some forts of Timber, but not all. ”

“ Of these the learned and ingenious Author hath given considerable instances in many Particulars, casting chiefly an Eye upon the R. Society, and the noble purposes of that Illustrious Body, looking upon the same as the great Ferment of Generous and Useful knowledge, designed to turn Learned men to that excellent study, from which men have been so long, and so unhappily diverted, viz. ”

“ They bite much more then they swallow, so that the Sea is cover'd with the Grass, where they feed at the bottom. Once in about halfe an hour they come up, and fetch one breath like a sigh, and then sink down again. ”

“ Although the Arguments of Riccioli be many, yet the strength of them consists chiefly in these three:
The first.
Multa corpora gravia, dimissa per Aerem, in Plano Æquatoris existentem, descenderent ad Terram cum Velocitatis Incremento reali & notabili, & non tantùm apparenti. Sed si tellus moveretur motu diurnotantùm circa sui centrum, nulla corpora gravia, dimissa per Aerem, in Plano Æquatoris existentem, descenderent ad Terram cum velocitatis incremento reali ac notabili, sed tantùm cum apparenti. E. Tellus aut non movetur, aut non movetur diurno tantùm motu. ”

“ If you hurt them on shore, as they lie on their backs, the teares will trickle from their Eyes. You may keep them out of the water 20 dayes and more, and yet they will be so fat as to be fitting meat, provided ”

“ Elementorum, percussio in , est ad percussionene in , in ratione composita ex ratione sinus anguli incidentiæ , ad sinum anguli incidentiæ , & ex ratione velocitatis in ad velocitatem in ; quod demonstrare oportuit. Neminem moveat, quod hæc demonstratio adstricta fit motibus æqualibus in lineis rectis & planis resistentibus; est enim vera in omni casu: nam, cumpercussiones fiant in puncto, in hoc coincidunt rectum, curvum, æquale, & inæquale; si autem in punctis percussiones non fiant. ”

“ An Account of a Controversy betwixt Stephano de Angelis, and John Baptista Riccioli, concerning the Motion of the Earth.⁠An Enlargement of the Observations formerly publisht Numb. 27. imparted by a Curious Travellour to Jamaica; Where do occurr Discourses about the Steams of the Sea; the Colour of the Sea; various Plants and Animals in Jamaica, and other Islands of the Caribes; the qualities of Tobacco growing in Nitrous Ground; Hurricans; a way to make a Boat ride at Anchor in the main Sea; the effects of the Change of Climat on Human Bodies ”

“ To illustrate this more, let us prove, that, other things being alike, the proportion of two percussions is composed of the direct proportion of their velocities, and of the direct proportions of the Sines of their angles of incidence. Supponamus autem sequens principium, nempe, quod percussiones (cæteris paribus,) sint in directa proportione cum velocitatibus, quibus mobile appropinquat planum resistens.Fig. ”

“ Quoniam antem recta , æqualiter inclinant ad planum , mobilia in rectis , , accedunt ad planum , in eadem proportione qua moventur in rectis , ; & ideo percussio in C est ad percussionem in in ratione velocitatis motus in seu in ad velocitaten motus in ; At demonstratum est ante, percussionem in puncto ad percussionem in puncto , esse in ratione sinus anguli ad sinum anguli . & nunc demonstratum est, percussionem in puncto esse ad percussionem in puncto , ut velocitas motus in ad velocitatem motus in . Igitur ex 5. defin. 6. ”