{"title":"XLIV. New experiments upon the Leyden phial, respecting the termination of conductors.","authors":"B. Wilson","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1778.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1778.0045","url":null,"abstract":"R ead J u ly 9 , the LXivth volume of the Philofophical 17 7 8. 1 Tranfadions there is a paper or Mr. henly’s upon the fubjed of condudors, wherein are con tained feveral experiments, intended to fhew that pointed terminations are preferable to lpherical ones for fecuring buildings, &c. from accidents by lightning. Upon thofe experiments I made fome obfervations, and particularly upon the fifth, where a point and ball were placed at the fame diftance from a lphere of cop per, fo as to make part of the circuit in the Leyden ex periment'^. In the defcription of that experiment I objeded to the two chains employed therein, becaufe the metallic communication was, by that method, confiderably interrupted, on account of a want of contad be tween the feveral links compofing the chains. I did not then repeat the experiment becaufe the particular circumftances attending the Leyden phial appeared, in my","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"135 1","pages":"1012 - 999"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76094409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"XXXVIII. Some anatomical observations","authors":"W. Cheselden","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1713.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1713.0038","url":null,"abstract":"T T '/G . S. Tab. VI. (hews the beginning of the Aorta, Tab. VI. J j or great Artery, from the Heart of a Woman who ftg. 8, &c. died of a Dropfy. A. is the Aorta, fl. B. tw o Chalk* (tones which ppffeffed the Place o f the Semilunar Valves. The left Ventricle o f the Heart was dilated fo twice its Natural Magnitude. We fuppofed that thefe Stones occahoned the Dropfy, by obftmfiting the Valves, and hindring a regular Diftribution o f the Blood. Fig. 9. (hews a Bone taken from the , or firft Procefs of the Dura Mater , of a Man who died of violent Head-aches. Fig. 10. (hews a Bone taken from the between the Ventricles of the Heart of a Man, who died Hydropic and Tabid. In this Body the whole Pericardium adher’d to the Heart. Fig. 11. (hews the Optick Nerves 3 the right Nerve being wafted and difcoloured: The Eyes both appeared to be very good. I had not an opportunity of inquiring into the Cafe of this Perfon 3 but I fuppofe it muft have been a Gutta Serena.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"23 1 1","pages":"281 - 282"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84883909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"XX. An account of the trigonometrical survey, carried on in the years 1795, and 1796, by order of the Marquis Cornwallis, Master General of the Ordance","authors":"E. Williams, W. Mudge, Isaac Dalby","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1797.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1797.0022","url":null,"abstract":"According to the resolution expressed in the account of the Trigonometrical Survey, printed in the Philosophical Transactions for the year 1795, we now communicate to the public, through the same channel, a farther relation of its progress. On referring to the above paper, it will be found that, for the prosecution of this undertaking, a design was formed of proceeding to the westward, with a series of triangles, for the survey of the coast. This intention has been carried into effect; and as the small theodolite, or circular instrument, announced in our former communication as then in the hands of Mr. Ramsden, was finished early in the summer of 1795, we are enabled to give a series of triangles, extending, in conjunction with those before given, from the Isle of Thanet, in Kent, to the Land's End.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"21 1","pages":"432 - 541"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85473207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"I. An attempt to prove the motion of the earth from observations, made by Robert Hook fellow of the R. Society. London in 4. printed for J. Martyn at the bell in St. Pauls Church yard, 1674","authors":"R. Hooke","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1674.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1674.0007","url":null,"abstract":"The Ingenious Author of this Attempt, having consider’d with himself, that the grand Controversie about the Motion of the Earth remains yet undetermin’d, and finding, there was no other means left for human Industry to decide it but by. observing, whether there be any sensible Parallax of the Earths Orb amongst the Fixt Stars; did thereupon resolve to employ himself in making some Observations concerning so important a point in Astronomy.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"31 1","pages":"12 - 20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85487838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"XX. Extract of a register of the barometer, thermometer, and rain, at Lyndon, in Rutland, 1775","authors":"Barker","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1776.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1776.0021","url":null,"abstract":"The year began favourable, the winter was mild and not in general wet; there was indeed a pretty deal of rain the first half of February, but the latter part of that month was warm and forwarding, and the spring continued to advance from that time with much fewer frosty mornings and N.E. winds than there frequently are at that season, the many strong Westerly winds keeping them back. The seed-time was fine, and the season good for corn. There were Northerly winds the former part of April, but they were not sharp ones; and the latter part of the month was hot, some days more so than in the height of summer.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"43 1","pages":"370 - 374"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84718100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"V. A relation of an extraordinary sleepy person, at Tinsbury, near Bath","authors":"W. Oliver","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1704.0109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1704.0109","url":null,"abstract":"May the 13th, Anno 1694, one Samuel Chilton, of Tinsbury near Bath, a Labourer, about 25 years of age, of a robust habit of Body, not fat, but fleshy, and a dark brown Hair, happen'd, without any visible cause, or evident sign, to fall into a very profound Sleep, out of which no Art used by those that were near him, cou'd rouze him, till after a months time; then rose of himself, put on his Cloaths, and went about his business of Husbandry as usual; slept, cou’d eat and drink as before, but spake not one word till about a month after.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"19 1","pages":"2177 - 2182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83324879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"XIII. Some account of the Dugong. By Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Governor of Sumatra; communicated in a letter to Sir Everard Home, Bart. V. P. R. S","authors":"T. Raffles","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1820.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1820.0014","url":null,"abstract":"My dear Sir, I have now the pleasure of communicating to you the desired information concerning the dugong. At Singapore, in June last, I had the good fortune to meet with one of these animals, and Messrs. Diard and Duvaucel, two French naturalists, employed under my authority, undertook the dissection of it; and have sent a dissertation upon it to Sir Joseph Banks. This does not interfere with my sending to you, as I promised, an account of it. I was present at the dissection; and the following observations, as far as they go, may be depended upon. I have read them over to Dr. Wallick and General Hardwicke, and they concur in opinion as to the correctness of the description. I have the pleasure to acquaint you, that General Hardwicke has just now got a small dugong, four feet six inches long, which I have succeeded in persuading him to send home to you for dissection, and you will receive it by the next ships. The dugong which we examined measured eight feet and a half in length, and afforded no less interest under the knife than satisfaction on the table, as the flesh proved to be most excellent beef. Our entertainment was truly marine; for we had on the same day discovered those Neptunian sponges which General Hardwicke has since described, and which served us as goblets.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"38 1","pages":"174 - 182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80705623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"C. An account of an extraordinary storm of hail in Virginia","authors":"W. Fauquier","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1757.0101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1757.0101","url":null,"abstract":"Sir, In a letter I received from my brother, the lieutenant governor of Virginia, he gives an account of a very remarkable storm of hail; which, if you think it worth communicating to the Society, is very much at their service.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"44 1","pages":"746 - 747"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80871980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"I. A description of a Roman sudatory, or Hypocaustum, found at Wroxeter in Shropshire, Anno 1701","authors":"J. Lyster","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1706.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1706.0009","url":null,"abstract":"About 40 Perches distant North from a ruinous Wall, call’d the Old-Work of Wroxeter, once Uriconium, a famous city in Shropshire, in a piece of Arable Land, in the Tenure of Mr Bennet, he observed, that altho these Fields had formerly been fertilized and made very rich by the Flames and Destruction of the city, yet a small Square Parcel thereof to be fruitless, and not to be improved by the best Manure.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"27 1","pages":"2226 - 2227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88659840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LI. An attempt to explain an antient Roman inscription, cut upon a stone lately found at Bath","authors":"J. Ward","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1753.0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1753.0051","url":null,"abstract":"A Copy of this inscription was first communicated to this Society by Mr. Henry Baker, who received it in a letter from John Browning Esq; dated the fourth of July last.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"4 5 1","pages":"332 - 346"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88715265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}