Research Catalog

Title

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London for the year MDCCCII. Part I [electronic resource].

Publication

London : Sold by G. and W. Nicol, 1802

Details

Additional Authors

• Young, Thomas, 1773-1829.
• Hatchett, Charles, 1765?-1847.
• Woodhouse, Robert, 1773-1827.
• Howard, Edward
• Herschel, William, 1738-1822.
• Bournon, Jacques Louis, comte de, 1751-1825.
• Chenevix, Richard, 1774-1830.
• Wollaston, William Hyde, 1766-1828.
• Tennant, Smithson, 1761-1815.
• Prevost, Pierre, 1751-1839.
• Hellins, John, -1827.
• Home, Everard, Sir, 1756-1832.
• Royal Society (Great Britain)
• G. and W. Nicol (Firm)
• W. Bulmer and Co.

Description

1 online resource ([3], vi, [1], 48 p., [1] leaf of plates (fold.)) : ill.

Series Statement

• Bakerian lecture
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925

Uniform Title

• Bakerian lecture.
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.

Alternative Title

• Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London for the year 1802
• Croonian lecture on the power of the eye to adjust itself to different distances.

Subject

Science

Note

• Errata between p. vi and 1.
• Includes index.
• Publisher's advertising: p. [iii], 2nd count.
• Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

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.

OCLC

• 874814551
• NCCO2004825

Title

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London for the year MDCCCII. Part I [electronic resource].

Imprint

London : Sold by G. and W. Nicol, 1802 (London : W. Bulmer)

Series

Bakerian lecture

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925

Bakerian lecture.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

Some articles in French.

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Added Author

Young, Thomas, 1773-1829.

Hatchett, Charles, 1765?-1847.

Woodhouse, Robert, 1773-1827.

Howard, Edward.

Herschel, William, 1738-1822.

Bournon, Jacques Louis, comte de, 1751-1825.

Chenevix, Richard, 1774-1830.

Wollaston, William Hyde, 1766-1828.

Tennant, Smithson, 1761-1815.

Prevost, Pierre, 1751-1839.

Hellins, John, -1827.

Home, Everard, Sir, 1756-1832. On the power of the eye to adjust itself to different distances.

Royal Society (Great Britain)

G. and W. Nicol (Firm)

W. Bulmer and Co.

Added Title

Croonian lecture on the power of the eye to adjust itself to different distances.