{"title":"VIII. Description of a set of halo's and parhelia, seen in the year 1771, in North-America","authors":"A. Baxter","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1787.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1787.0008","url":null,"abstract":"“ January 22, 1771. Laft night and to-day the froft has been more fevere than at any time this w inter: I was hardly able, at mid-day, to keep my face to the wind uncovered,, though the fun fhone very bright, and the Iky clear; “ In the morning the wind was eafterly, which went aboutr Wrth the fun to the fouth and weftward, returning to the eaft in the evening; a very fmall breeze. u A little before two o’clock P.M. obferved as follows. There was a very large circle or halo round the fun (fee Tab. V .) within which the fky was thick and dufky, th e reft of thehemifphere being c l e a r a n d , a little more than one-third way from the horizon to the zenith, was a' beautifully enlightened; circle, parallel to the horizon, which went quite round, till the two ends of it terminated in the circle that furrounded the fu n ;; Read December 7, 1786..","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"72 1","pages":"44 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75220150","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":"XI. Some observations relating to vegetable seeds","authors":"J. Parsons","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1744.0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1744.0041","url":null,"abstract":"Among the many subjects the store-house of nature, nothing, perhaps, is more entertaining, nor merits more the attention of the learned and curious, than the family of vegetable seeds; and it is indeed surprising, that, till now, they have not been made an express subject for the consideration of some curious naturalist, since plants and flowers have been treated of by so great a number of authors from the earliest times.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"5 1","pages":"184 - 188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74491697","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":"XXXII. Observations and experiments on different extracts of hemlock","authors":"Michael Morris","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1764.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1764.0033","url":null,"abstract":"Read May 24, | Wade, an eminent phyfician at *'64’ j f ^ / Lilbon, having lately communi cated to the London Medical Society, a number of cafles, in which the extrad of Hemlock prepared at Coimbra in Portugal, had been given with extraor dinary fuccefs, and having fent me at the fame time fpecimens of the fuccefsful extrad, and alfo of the extrads of Hemlock prepared at Lifbon and by Dr. Storck’s Apothecary at Vienna, which two lad-m en tioned extrads he had prefcribed for the fpace of three years, in various disorders, to little or noeffed; I thought an experimental inquiry into the com ponent parts of thefe extrads and that ufed in Lon don might be attended with fome ufeful or curious confequences; more efpecially as this medicine was near lofing its credit intirely, from its little fuccefs here in thofe diforders in which it had been m od drongly recommended by Dr. Storck. I think it not unneceffary to premife farther, that the extrad pre pared at Coimbra is not fo moid as the other extrads, and that it has been given for a conliderable time at the dofe of a drachm and a half twice a day with out producing the lead difagreeable fymptom.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"26 1","pages":"172 - 176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78734605","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":"VI. Experiments with camphire","authors":"Alexander","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1767.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1767.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Read Jan. 29, A S medical authors have differed fo 17 7 * l widely in their opinions concerning the nature and effedts of camphire, one part of them pofitively affirming that it heats, and another aflerting with the fame confidence that it cools the body 5 I made the following experiments with it, in order, if poffible, to have cleared up the difficulty. I f camphire was a heater, I concluded it would raife my pulfe, and augment my natural heat $ and therefore, previous to my taking it, I counted the number of pulfations in a minute, which were fixtyeight, and found that, in the fpace of five minutes, the mercury in Fahrenheit's thermometer arofe eighteen degrees by the heat of my ftomach *. Having thus found the ftate of my pulfe, and of my natural heat; I took 9 j o f camphire in a little of the pulp of tamarinds $ and twenty minutes afterwards applied the thermometer to my ftomach: themerqury, in the fpace of five minutes, arofe exadtly eighteen degrees, as it had done before taking the doie, but my pulfe beat only fixty-fix, which was two ftrokes lefs. Three quarters of an hour after I had taken the camphire, I applied the thermometer again $ in the","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"48 1","pages":"65 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76505495","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":"IV. An observation of some parelii seen at Canterbury","authors":"Stephen Gray","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1699.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1699.0026","url":null,"abstract":"informs us, That formerly in Difle&ing the Body bf a Woman, who fuppofed her felf to be Three Months gone with Child ; he found the Womb very (mail, not larger than in Virgins | and a hard Subftance in the RightHorn, which being opened, appeared to be the Sceleton of an Infant, with the Navel-firing, fmeared round with a white Matter, notunlike Plafter, which he fhewed to M. Du Ferny, and other curious Perfons.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"45 1","pages":"126 - 127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79009276","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":"III. An account of a monstrous fœtus, resembling a hooded Monkey","authors":"W. Gregory","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1739.0133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1739.0133","url":null,"abstract":"A Woman, aged 44, of an athletic Body, conceived with Child a little before Christmas 1730. upon which ensued all the usual Symptoms of Pregnancy.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"29 1","pages":"764 - 767"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79322461","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":"XVIII. Observations of the diurnal variation of the magnetic needle, in the Island of St. Helena; with a continuation of the observations at Fort Marlborough, in the Island of Sumatra","authors":"J. Macdonald","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1798.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1798.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Sir, On my arrival in England, I had the honour of observing to you, that I had taken some observations of the diurnal variation of the magnetic needle, in the island of St. Helena. I am to apologize to you for having, till this period, omitted furnishing you with these, and with a continuation of those formerly taken in the island of Sumatra. The meridian was laid off by means of an apparatus brought from Bencoolen; and the requisite allowance made for the alteration of the sun's declination during the operation. The meridian-plate remains firmly set in a pillar of teak-wood, well fixed, for the use of navigators; who, by applying a compass-card to it, will find the variation more readily, and correctly, than by amplitude or azimuth. A short residence at St. Helena, arising from the sudden departure of the fleet to which the ship I was in belonged, has prevented the observations from being as numerous as I could wish. Their agreement, however, indicates that fifty-eight observations are sufficient for affording such conclusions as philosophy may draw; and tends to confirm some inferences stated in a former Paper, containing similar observations taken in the East Indies. By adding the mean of the morning and afternoon observations, at St. Helena, and taking the half, the general variation, in the month of November, 1796, appears to have been 15° 48' 34\" 1/2 west: and, by subtracting the medium diurnal afternoon variation, from the medium diurnal morning, the vibrating variation proves to be 3' 55\". It appears, that the magnetic needle is stationary from about six o’clock in the evening till six o’clock in the morning; when it commences moving, and the west variation increases, till it amounts to its maximum, about eight o’clock; diminishing afterwards, till it becomes stationary. Here, the same cause seems to operate as at Bencoolen, with a modification of effect, proportioned to the relative situations of the southern magnetic poles, and the places of observation. At the apartments of the Royal Society, this species of variation is found to increase, from seven o’clock in the morning till two o’clock in the afternoon. If the variation is east, in the northern hemisphere in the East Indies, I conceive that the diurnal variation will increase towards the afternoon, remain some time stationary, and diminish before the succeeding morning: if the general variation is west, in that quarter, the reverse may be the case. The quantity of the diurnal variation is greater in Britain than at St. Helena, or at Bencoolen. This will naturally arise from this country’s being more contiguous to its affecting poles, than those islands situated near the equator. It were to be wished, that observations were taken in as many situations as possible, similarly situated in the opposite hemispheres, on the lines of no variation. A greater degree of dip might be found, and conclusions might be deduced, that would tend considerably to illustrate this curious and interesti","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"91 1","pages":"397 - 402"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79436454","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. Observations of the eclipses of Jupiter’s satellites, from 1700, to the year 1727","authors":"W. Derham","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1727.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1727.0032","url":null,"abstract":".....— r Dies Mends. Tempns acquale. Tempus apparens. Per Tab. Flamft. & Cafiini. Qualis Eclipfis. Locus Jovis Helioc. | H. M. S. | H. M. S. |Min. Sec. | | Grad. |1? Anno Domini 1700* Aug. 13 10. 59. 4 10. 57. 10 59. FI Em. xx 15 Telefcopio 6. pedals. Dec. 1 —. — :t* S 5!• 8 l — 1 .38 4h55(i C. 4. 58 FI. E. xx to Telefc. i<5. pedali. Omnes fequentes Eclipfes Tubo i<5. pedali obiervatae fuere, nin cum aliter notatur. ,","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"41 1","pages":"415 - 428"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80967983","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":"II. Astronomical observations on the Planets Venus and Mars, made with a view to determine the heliocentric longitude of their nodes, the annual motion of the nodes, and the greatest inclination of their orbits","authors":"T. Bugge","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1790.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1790.0005","url":null,"abstract":"H. Aftronomical Obfervations on the Planets Venus and Mars, made •with a View to determine the heliocentric Longitude o f their Nodes, the annual Motion o f the Nodes, and the greateft Inclination of their Orbits. By, Thomas Bugge, F. RS< Regius Profe/or o f Aftronomy at Copenhagen, Member oj the Academies o f Stockholm* Copenhagen, Manheim, and Drontheim, and Correfpondentof the Academy o f Sciences at Paris.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"9 1","pages":"21 - 31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79520452","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}