Miscellanea curiosa : containing a collection of some of the principal phænomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age ; being the most valuable discourses, read and delivered to the Royal Society, for the advancement of physical and mathematical knowledge ; as also a collection of curious travels, voyages, antiquities, and natural histories of countries : presented to the same society ; to which is added, a discourse of the influence of the sun and moon on human bodies, &c. by R. Mead and also Fontenelle's preface of the usefullness of mathematical learning.