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{"title":"XIX. Observations on the barometer and thermometer, and account of the whole rain in every month of the year 1767, taken at the Royal Hospital near Plymouth","authors":"W. Farr","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1768.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1768.0019","url":null,"abstract":"The thermometer within doors is kept in an airy open stair case, and not affected by any fire in the house; that without was in a shed under the North wall. From the 2d to the 7th of February was a frost, and since that time incessant rain to March 1.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"22 1","pages":"136 - 139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86336822","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":"XL. Observations on the origin and use of the lymphatic vessels of animals: being an extract from the Gulstonian lectures, read in the theatre of the College of Physicians of London, in June 1755","authors":"Mark Akenside","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1757.0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1757.0041","url":null,"abstract":"m monftrofa hose bioa corpora duplici mente ac fpi~ « fitu regantur. Nam five cor faciamus, five cere« brum ftatuamus animi fedem, ex utrolibet idem « nulla negotio evincitur. Adde tot adtiones multi<{ pi lees, cogitationes rerum diver fas, lenla animi varia, “ q u i , ut aliud nihil fit, ifthuc pariter nos docent. “ Unum praecipue hie admirandum venit, quod commemorare fuperius memoria excidit poft ** prodigiofum videlicet hunc difficilemque partum u natos elle matri alios liberos, ex eodem patre pro« creates, fanos et valentes, corpore, fpecie ac forma *< integros, qui monffri nihil admixtum habeant.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"20 1","pages":"322 - 328"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85995954","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":"VIII. An account of a book.- Museo de piante rare della Sicilia, Malta, Corsica, Italia, Piemonte e Germania, &c. di Don Paolo Boccone, &c. with additional remarks by Mr. John Ray, F. R. S","authors":"","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1698.0101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1698.0101","url":null,"abstract":"Seen of it, though I may believe it innocent* yot I ana lure ’tis not infallible. 1 p i Fig.6^) 8, 9, id, n , i i , Shew Eight feveral Inftrutnetits made fergating this Nails* at which, in Cbina, the People are very curious and dextrous. Thefe In­ terments are each of them fliaped like a Ghizzel. Fig. 14. reprefents a kind of Inftrutnent, called, in China, a Cham ping Inftrument, Its ufe is to be rub’d V or rouiy all over the MufcuJar Flelh. It is like an Horfes Gurricomb, and is faid to beufed after the lame man­ ner, and for the fame Purpofes that they are made ufe of . for Horles. : •","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"69 1","pages":"462 - 468"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84069744","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":"Meteorological journal,1818","authors":"","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1819.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1819.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Meteorological Journal for January, 1818.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"23 1","pages":"1 - 26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81879794","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":"XXXVI. A view of the relation between the celebrated Dr. Halley's Tables, and the notions of Mr. De Buffon, for establishing a rule for the probable duration of the life of man","authors":"William Kersseboom","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1753.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1753.0036","url":null,"abstract":"Read May 31, § j , 'A tWYf ituation in life not perI7S3‘ mitting me to look over the works of the learned, was the reafon, why I was not one of the firft, who perufed the General and cular Natural HiJtoryy &c,of Mr. de Buffon. How­ ever a little interval of leifure allowing me to look into it, I am at a ftand to find myfelf mention’d, in the fame breath with tbs celebrated Dr. Halley and others, to receive our condemnation on account or the tables for determining the degrees of probability of the duration of human life: and as this paffage is the occafion of my remarks, I will begin by citing it intirely here:","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"18 1","pages":"239 - 252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78458570","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":"VII. On the parallax of α. Lyræ","authors":"J. Pond","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1823.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1823.0009","url":null,"abstract":"My former experiments with a fixed telescope upon α Cygni have always appeared to me so decisive, as to render hopeless any farther attempt to discover its parallax; but respecting that of α Lyræ, my observations with the mural circle were not equally satisfactory; for among the observations of this star we may find occasional discordances that admit of being interpreted in favour of parallax. And although I have been inclined myself to attribute these irregularities to other causes, yet their existence made it desirable to institute new experiments. The method with a fixed telescope, which I had contrived for α Cygni, could not here, I found, be applied successfully; there being no star of nearly the same altitude but opposite in right ascension sufficiently bright to be observed throughout the year, a circumstance quite essential to that mode of observation. I have employed therefore the mural circle to investigate, 1st, the difference of parallax between γ Draconis and α Lyræ: 2dly, the absolute parallax of the latter star; the Dublin observations indicating, it may be remembered, that the parallax of γ Draconis is insensible, but that of α Lyræ a very perceptible quantity. The processes employed in these two investigations being very different, I shall consider each of them separately. It is impossible to conceive a more simple process than that of determining with the mural circle the difference of polar distance between these stars. From their proximity in right ascension, the operation is the same as that of measuring the angular distance of two terrestrial objects, about 12° asunder, with a theodolite surrounded by six microscopes: for the mural circle, in principle, exactly resembles a vertical theodolite; with this difference, that its microscopes, instead of being placed on a frame-work of brass, are securely fixed on a stone pier. Now I find that the angular distance thus measured in winter does not differ one-tenth of a second from the same angular distance measured in summer; and therefore, that the difference of parallax between the two stars is absolutely a quantity too small to be measured. In this investigation, it is to be considered that any constant error in the determination of the absolute polar distances has nothing to do with the question, it being the difference only of those distances at opposite seasons that is required. To render all errors throughout the whole course of observation as constant as possible, the telescope remained fixed to the same part of the limb of the instrument, and the utmost pains were taken to reduce the temperature in the Observatory to that of the outer air; the difference throughout the year not exceeding one degree. The winter of 1821-1822 was extremely favourable for astronomical observation; there were an unusual number of fine nights, and the weather was so mild and uniform, that we were enabled to equalize the temperature, so as to make it of no importance whether the observations were ","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"7 1","pages":"53 - 72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78625481","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 account of some magnetical experiments and observations","authors":"W. Derham","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1704.0097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1704.0097","url":null,"abstract":"Having lately invented an Azimuth-Compass, as I was preparing it for observing the Magnetic Variation, I took occasion, in some leisure hours, to try divers Magnetick Experiments for my diversion; and by that means happened upon this odd Phænomenon.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"75 1","pages":"2136 - 2138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87931411","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. Experiments to prove the existence of a fluid in the nerves","authors":"Alexander Stuart","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1731.0057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1731.0057","url":null,"abstract":"H E Exiftence of a Fluid in the Nerves (commonly called the Animal ) has been doubted of by many ; and notwithftanding Experiments made by Ligatures upon the , continues to be controverted by fome. This induced me to make the following Experiments, which, I hope, may help to fet that Dodrine, which is of fo much Confequence in the Animal QEconomy, and Pra&ice of Phyfick, in a clearer Light than I think it has hitherto appeared in.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"16 1","pages":"327 - 331"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88217691","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 account of the late eruption of Mount Vesuvius","authors":"W. Hamilton","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1795.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1795.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Sir, Every day produces some new publication relative to the late tremendous eruption of mount Vesuvius, so that the various phaenomena that attended it will be found on record in either one or other of these publications, and are not in that danger of being passed over and forgotten, as they were formerly, when the study of natural history was either totally neglected, or treated of in a manner very unworthy of the great Author of nature. I am sorry to say, that even so late as in the accounts of the earthquakes in Calabria in 1783, printed at Naples, nature is taxed with being malevolent, and bent upon destruction. In a printed account of another great eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1631, by Antonio Santorelli, doctor of medicine, and professor of natural philosophy in the university of Naples, and at the head of the fourth chapter of his book, are these words: Se questo incendio sia opera de' demonii? Whether this eruption be the work of devils? The account of an eruption of Vesuvius in 1737, published at Naples by Doctor Serao, is of a very different cast, and does great honour to his memory. All great eruptions of volcanoes must naturally produce nearly the same phenomena, and in Serao's book almost all the phenomena we have been witness to during the late eruption of Vesuvius, are there admirably described, and well accounted for. The classical accounts of the eruption of Vesuvius, which destroyed the towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii, and many of the existing printed accounts of its great eruption in 1631 (although the latter are mixed with puerilities) might pass for an account of the late eruption by only changing the date, and omitting that circumstance of the retreat of the sea from the coast, which happened in both those great eruptions, and not in this; and I might content myself by referring to those accounts, and assuring you at the same time, that the late eruption, after those two, appears to have been the most violent recorded by history, and infinitely more alarming than either the eruption of 1767, or that of 1779, of both of which I had the honour of giving a particular account to the Royal Society. However, I think it my duty rather to hazard being guilty of repetition than to neglect the giving you every satisfaction in my power, relative to the late formidable operation of nature.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"51 1","pages":"116 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90937965","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":"Meteorological journal, 1817","authors":"","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1818.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1818.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Meteorological Journal for January, 1817.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"43 1","pages":"1 - 26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80060109","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}