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Smithson Tennant,

... Isaac Newton having observed that inflammable bodies had a greater refraction, in proportion to their density, than ... diamond was capable of resisting the effects of a violent heat when the air was carefully excluded, ... remained to be determined whether the diamond was a distinct substance, or one of the known inflammable ... this question till M. Lavoisier, in 1772, undertook a series of experiments for this purpose. He exposed the diamond to the heat produced by a large lens, and was thus enabled to bum ...

Tópico(s): Historical and Literary Studies

1797 - Royal Society | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

Primary Document Acesso aberto
3. A new and authentic system of universal geography, antient and modern: All the late important discoveries made by the English, and other celebrated navigator of various nations, in the different hemispheres, from the celebrated Columbus, the first discoverer of America, to the death of our no less celebrated contryman Captain Cook, &c. and containing a genuine history and description whole world, as consisting of empires, kingdoms, states, republics, provinces, continents, Islands, oceans, &c. with the various countries, cities, towns, promotories, capes, bays, peninsulas, isthmusses, gulphs, rivers, harbours, lakes, mountains, volcanos, deserts, &c. Europe Asia, Africa, and America: together with their respective situations, extent, latitude, longitude, boundaries, climate, soil, natural and artificial curiosities, mines, metals, minerals, trees, shrubs, fruits, flowers, herbs, and vegetable productions. With an account of the religion, laws, customs, manners, genius, habits amusements, and ceremonies of the respective inhabitants: their arts, sciences, manufactures, trade, commerce, military and civil governments, &c. also exact descriptions of the various kinds of beasts, birds, fishes, amphibious creatures, reptiles, infects, &c. together with a complete history of every empire, kingdom, and state. Also an account of the most remarkable battles, sieges, sea-fights, and various revolutions that have taken place in different parts of the world. The whole forming an authentic and entertaining account every thing worthy of notice throughout the whole face of nature, both by land and water. In which is introduced, to illustrate the work, a considerable number of the most accurate whole sheet maps, forming a complete atlas. To which is added a complete guide to geography, astronomy the use of the globes, maps, &c. with an account of the rise, progress, and present state, of navigation, throughout the known world. Likewise containing every important, interesting, and valuable discovery throughout the whole of Captain Cook's voyages round the world. Together with those of the modern circumnavigators, particularly byron, carteret, wallis, clerke, gore, King, forrest, and Wilson. Also containing a particular account of the Pelew Islands. And the latest accounts of the English colony of botany bay: with a particular description of Port Jackson, Norfolk Island, &c. where the convicts are now settled. The whole forming a complete collection of voyages and travels. By the Rev. Thomas Bankes, vicar of dixton, in monmouthshire and author of the christian's family Bible. Edward Warren Blake, Esq. Alexander Cook, Esq. and Thomas Lloyd. Embellished with near two hundred beautiful engravings, consisting, of views, antiquities, customs, ceremonies, &c. together with whole sheet maps, plans, charts, &c. executed in a much superior stile than any work of the like kind that has ever appeared in this kingdom.

Bankes, Thomas,

Publication date from CaNSHD. First published in 1787 as 'A new, royal, and authentic system of universal geography'. Pencilled date in BL copy [1791?] ...

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Edward Pigott, Henry Englefield,

... by determining their periodical changes of light, established a strong affinity between them and our sun; and ... with changes perhaps even sufficiently rapid to afford a ready means for determining accurately differences of terrestrial longitudes. This would be a most satisfactory, useful, and profitable discovery, and may be the lot of those who have but a slight knowledge of astronomy, provided that with great exactness, and a good memory, a constant look out be given. The discoveries which , ... Crown . The constellation of Sobieskiʼs Shield consists of a very few stars, and was formed by Hevelius, ...

Tópico(s): Historical and Architectural Studies

1797 - Royal Society | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

Primary Document Acesso aberto
6. A new and authentic system of universal geography, antient and modern: All the late important discoveries made by the English, and other celebrated navigator of various nations, in the different hemispheres, from the celebrated Columbus, the first discoverer of America, to the death of our no less celebrated contryman Captain Cook, &c. and containing a genuine history and description whole world, as consisting of empires, kingdoms, states, republics, provinces, continents, Islands, oceans, &c. with the various countries, cities, towns, promotories, capes, bays, peninsulas, isthmusses, gulphs, rivers, harbours, lakes, mountains, volcanos, deserts, &c. Europe Asia, Africa, and America: together with their respective situations, extent, latitude, longitude, boundaries, climate, soil, natural and artificial curiosities, mines, metals, minerals, trees, shrubs, fruits, flowers, herbs, and vegetable productions. With an account of the religion, laws, customs, manners, genius, habits amusements, and ceremonies of the respective inhabitants: their arts, sciences, manufactures, trade, commerce, military and civil governments, &c. also exact descriptions of the various kinds of beasts, birds, fishes, amphibious creatures, reptiles, infects, &c. together with a complete history of every empire, kingdom, and state. Also an account of the most remarkable battles, sieges, sea-fights, and various revolutions that have taken place in different parts of the world. The whole forming an authentic and entertaining account every thing worthy of notice throughout the whole face of nature, both by land and water. In which is introduced, to illustrate the work, a considerable number of the most accurate whole sheet maps, forming a complete atlas. To which is added a complete guide to geography, astronomy the use of the globes, maps, &c. with an account of the rise, progress, and present state, of navigation, throughout the known world. Likewise containing every important, interesting, and valuable discovery throughout the whole of Captain Cook's voyages round the world. Together with those of the modern circumnavigators, particularly byron, carteret, wallis, clerke, gore, King, forrest, and Wilson. Also containing a particular account of the Pelew Islands. And the latest accounts of the English colony of botany bay: with a particular description of Port Jackson, Norfolk Island, &c. where the convicts are now settled. The whole forming a complete collection of voyages and travels. By the Rev. Thomas Bankes, vicar of dixton, in monmouthshire and author of the christian's family Bible. Edward Warren Blake, Esq. Alexander Cook, Esq. and Thomas Lloyd. Embellished with near two hundred beautiful engravings, consisting, of views, antiquities, customs, ceremonies, &c. together with whole sheet maps, plans, charts, &c. executed in a much superior stile than any work of the like kind that has ever appeared in this kingdom.

Bankes, Thomas,

Publication date from CaNSHD. First published in 1787 as 'A new, royal, and authentic system of universal geography'. Pencilled date in BL copy [1791?] ...

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Alessandro Volta,

... d'un professeur de Bologna, Mr. Galvani, qui a paru il y a à-peu-près un an, avec ce titre; Aloysii ... autres celui du Dr. Brugnatelli de Pavie, qui a pour titre, Giornale Fisico-medico; auquel j'ai ... Banks. pour être communiqué, s’il le croit à propos, à cette savante Compagnie, corame un foible temoignage de ma reconnoissance pour 1'honneur qu’elle m’a fait de m’associer à son corps, et de inon zele et empressement à répondre à son invitation de lui faire part, de terns ...

Tópico(s): Neurology and Historical Studies

1793 - Royal Society | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

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Thomas Young,

... which are supposed to be the results of a uniform tension of a surface, resisting the pressure of a fluid, either uniform, or varying according to a given law. Segner, who appears to have been the first that maintained a similar opinion, has shown in what manner the ... is evidently the cause of the want of a perfect coinci­dence of some of his experiments ... experiment; that is, that for each combination of a solid and a fluid, there is an appropriate angle of contact ... glass and water, and in all cases where a solid is perfectly wetted by a fluid, is ...

Tópico(s): Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

1805 - Royal Society | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

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George Rennie,

... considered as deviating from my subject, ill taking a cursory view of the labours of others.The ... it deserves our serious attention.The passage over a deep and rapid river, the coustruetion of a great and noble edifice, or the combination of a more complicated piece of mechanism, are arts so ... writers are founded, have given rise to such a multiplleity of contradictory conclusions, that it is difficult ... us.Emerson, in his Mechanics, has'laid down a number of rule~ and approximations.Professor Robison in ...

Tópico(s): Historical Philosophy and Science

1819 - Taylor & Francis | The Philosophical Magazine

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Thomas Young,

... on the methods of appreciating the accuracy of a long series of observations in general, I have ... I have obtained from my investigations, in such a form as might serve either to accompany the ... to be laid before the Royal Society as a distinct communication. 1. On the estimation of the advantage of multiplied ob­servations . It has been a favourite object of research and speculation, among the ... accuracy of experimental re­sults, maybe reduced to a numerical form. It is indeed true, that this ... inclination to employ the doctrine of chances as a sort of auxiliary in the pursuit of a ...

Tópico(s): Probability and Statistical Research

1819 - Royal Society | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

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Michael Faraday,

... and varied refractive and dispersive powers, render glass a most important agent in the hands of the ... is frequently stopped in her progress by them; a fact fully proved by the circumstance that Mr. ... first opticians, has not been able to obtain a disc of flint glass four inches and a half in diameter, fit for a telescope, within the last five years, or a similar disc of five inches in diameter within ... solution of the same practical problem. He was a man of profound science, and had all the ... knowledge they acquired was altogether practical and personal, a matter of minute experience, and not of a ...

Tópico(s): History and Developments in Astronomy

1830 - Royal Society | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

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Michael Faraday,

... the Portable Oil-gas Company, is colourless, of a specific gravity less than that of water; insoluble ... alcohol, ether, oils, &c.; and combustible, burning with a dense flame. It is strikingly distinguished from the ... 250°, or above, for ebullition. By repeated distillations a series of products were obtained from the most ... 200°. On subjecting these, after numerous rectifications, to a low temperature, it was found that some of them concreted into a crystalline mass, and ultimately a substance was obtained ...

Tópico(s): Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies

1833 - Royal Society | Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

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Peter Mark Roget,

... deception which Dr. Roget describes, takes place when a carriage-wheel, rolling along the ground, is viewed through the intervals of a series of vertical bars, such as those of a palisade, or of a Venetian window-blind. In these circumstances, all the ... their position recedes from the vertical, and being a maximum for the horizontal spokes. The convexity of ... to Dr. Roget the proper mode of obtaining a clue to their explanation. It results from his experiments, that a certain degree of velocity in the wheel is ...

Tópico(s): Historical Geography and Cartography

1833 - Royal Society | Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

Artigo

... Mr. Tulley’s compound achromatic microscopes, consisting of a combination of object-glasses of short focus and ... attention; and as it is often erroneously estimated, a method is pointed out of ascertaining it with ... for every practical purpose. He then enters into a detailed description of the several parts of an ... rapidly moving the objects, and bringing into view a succession of them, while the light remains the ... great stress is laid on the importance of a skilful management of the light. In stating the ...

Tópico(s): History and Developments in Astronomy

1833 - Royal Society | Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London