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Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London for the year MDCCCII. Part I
Gale Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology and Medicine, 1780-1925 Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- Bakerian lecture.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I.
- Bakerian lecture
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([3], vi, [1], 48 p., [1] leaf of plates (fold.)) : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Sold by G. and W. Nicol, 1802 (London : W. Bulmer)
- Language Note:
- Some articles in French.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The Croonian lecture : On the power of the eye to adjust itself to different distances, when deprived of the crystalline lens / by Everard Home
- The Bakerian lecture : On the theory of light and colours / by Thomas Young
- An analysis of a mineral substance from North America, containing a metal hitherto unknown / by Charles Hatchett
- A description of the anatomy of the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus / by Everard Home
- On the independence of the analytical and geometrical methods of investigation, and on the advantages to be derived from their separation / by Robert Woodhouse
- Observations and experiments upon oxygenized and hyper-oxygenized muriatic acid, and upon some combinations of the muriatic acid in its three states / by Richard Chenevix
- Experiments and observations on certain stony and metalline substances, which at different times are said to have fallen on the earth; also on various kinds of native iron / by Edward Howard
- Appendix: Meteorological journal kept at the apartments of the Royal Society, by order of the President and Council.
- pt. 2. Observations on the two lately discovered celestial bodies / by William Herschel
- Description of the corundum stone, and its varieties, commonly known by the names of oriental ruby, sapphire, &c., with observations on some other mineral substances / by the Count de Bournon
- Analysis of the corundum, and of some other substances which accompany it, with observations on the affinities which the earths have been supposed to have for each other, in the humid way / by Richard Chenevix
- Description of the anatomy of the Ornithorhynchus Hystrix / by Everard Home
- A method of examining refractive and dispersive powers, by prismatic reflection / by William Hyde Wollaston
- On the oblique refraction of Iceland crystal / by William Hyde Wollaston
- An account of some cases of the production of colours not hitherto described / by Thomas Young
- On the composition of emery / by Smithson Tennant
- Quelques remarques sur la chaleur, et sur l'action des corps qui l'interceptent / par P. Prevost
- Of the rectification of the conic sections / by the Rev. John Hellins
- Catalogue of 500 new nebulae, nebulous stars, planetary nebulae, and clusters of stars, with remarks on the construction of the heavens / by William Herschel.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Errata between p. vi and 1.
- Includes index.
- Publisher's advertising: p. [iii], 2nd count.
- Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.
- Contains:
- Croonian lecture on the power of the eye to adjust itself to different distances.
- OCLC:
- 874814551
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