luxuriant imaginary fyftems, which rather force than elucidate, and very little agree with the laws of na ture. Who hitherto has ever rightly explained the origin of mountains ? We perhaps know fome par ticular caufes, but how can we draw from them ge neral conclufions ? The bones of animals, which are found in the interior Mures of the mountain, demonMate it to be formed by a ruinous caufe. This fuffices not to explain, but only to illuftrate, the fubjeCt. In the annexed Plate I. A is the mountain Taberg. B, B, B, the heaps of broken ore. C, C, C, the fand brought forth from the fiffures. Z), Z), the neighbouring ftony rock $ and , the miners houfes* I am,
{"title":"IX. An account of an extraordinary case of a child.","authors":"Richard K. Guy","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1755.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1755.0010","url":null,"abstract":"luxuriant imaginary fyftems, which rather force than elucidate, and very little agree with the laws of na ture. Who hitherto has ever rightly explained the origin of mountains ? We perhaps know fome par ticular caufes, but how can we draw from them ge neral conclufions ? The bones of animals, which are found in the interior Mures of the mountain, demonMate it to be formed by a ruinous caufe. This fuffices not to explain, but only to illuftrate, the fubjeCt. In the annexed Plate I. A is the mountain Taberg. B, B, B, the heaps of broken ore. C, C, C, the fand brought forth from the fiffures. Z), Z), the neighbouring ftony rock $ and , the miners houfes* I am,","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"44 1","pages":"34 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86885555","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 1787","authors":"","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1788.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1788.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"13 1","pages":"191 - 218"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87538709","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}
The year began with a remarkably open winter, sometimes quite warm and pleasant, and several times thunder. It was showery at first, then dry and fine; but the end of January and beginning of February were wet, yet still open and mild, and more dry afterward; but colder, and inclined to frost, the end of February, and in March, the middle of which was again mild and fine, and not windy, but frosty toward the end. The last days of March, and beginning of April, were dry and pleasant; a good seed time, and calm; but rain was wanted toward the end, which came plentifully the end of April, and beginning of May. The season in general cool, and the latter half more dry; too much so in the south of England, for grass and hay were scarce there; but, in this country, both grass and corn came on well, and continued to do so all June, which was of a moderate heat, with a mixture of wet and dry; frequent but moderate winds, and calm at the end. There was plenty of hay this year; but, through a very wet and windy July, a good deal of it was not well got. The crops of grain were almost all good, and the moist July made the beans and pease remarkably so. The harvest, though threatening at first, was in general very well got; the weather being chiefly fair, and rather hot, with some rain at times, kept the grass in a growing state, of which there was plenty left upon the ground against winter. The autumn was in general very fine and pleasant; for the most part fair, with few frosty mornings, till near the end of November; when a severer season began, and continued very hard frost the first third of December; then an imperfect break for some days, but not so as to take the frost all away. It returned again as hard as before, and continued another third of the month, till the two last days; when a thaw came on, with very warm and remarkably wet air, though no great quantity of rain fell. It was agreed every where, that December 24, at night, was much the coldest time this winter; in some places the thermometer was down below o, at 4 or 8; but I did not happen to look at it just at that time, so that I never saw it so low as 14.
{"title":"VII. Abstract of a register of the barometer, thermometer, and rain, at Lyndon, in Rutland, for the year 1796","authors":"T. Barker","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1798.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1798.0009","url":null,"abstract":"The year began with a remarkably open winter, sometimes quite warm and pleasant, and several times thunder. It was showery at first, then dry and fine; but the end of January and beginning of February were wet, yet still open and mild, and more dry afterward; but colder, and inclined to frost, the end of February, and in March, the middle of which was again mild and fine, and not windy, but frosty toward the end. The last days of March, and beginning of April, were dry and pleasant; a good seed time, and calm; but rain was wanted toward the end, which came plentifully the end of April, and beginning of May. The season in general cool, and the latter half more dry; too much so in the south of England, for grass and hay were scarce there; but, in this country, both grass and corn came on well, and continued to do so all June, which was of a moderate heat, with a mixture of wet and dry; frequent but moderate winds, and calm at the end. There was plenty of hay this year; but, through a very wet and windy July, a good deal of it was not well got. The crops of grain were almost all good, and the moist July made the beans and pease remarkably so. The harvest, though threatening at first, was in general very well got; the weather being chiefly fair, and rather hot, with some rain at times, kept the grass in a growing state, of which there was plenty left upon the ground against winter. The autumn was in general very fine and pleasant; for the most part fair, with few frosty mornings, till near the end of November; when a severer season began, and continued very hard frost the first third of December; then an imperfect break for some days, but not so as to take the frost all away. It returned again as hard as before, and continued another third of the month, till the two last days; when a thaw came on, with very warm and remarkably wet air, though no great quantity of rain fell. It was agreed every where, that December 24, at night, was much the coldest time this winter; in some places the thermometer was down below o, at 4 or 8; but I did not happen to look at it just at that time, so that I never saw it so low as 14.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"26 1","pages":"130 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83330105","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}
Sir, In the Island of Nevis, in the West-Indies, there was a Negro Woman belonging to one Captain Mead, who after one Year and halfs being with Child, was at the last, to a wonder relieved by the Navil, in this manner;
{"title":"IX. An account of a fætus, voided by the ulcered navil of a Negro in Nevis","authors":"J. Brodie","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1695.0105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1695.0105","url":null,"abstract":"Sir, In the Island of Nevis, in the West-Indies, there was a Negro Woman belonging to one Captain Mead, who after one Year and halfs being with Child, was at the last, to a wonder relieved by the Navil, in this manner;","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"1 1","pages":"580 - 581"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84643576","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}
Y TP O N Thtirfdayt he lif t of ol> L / ferving the Barometer much higher than ufual r that Evening, between Seven and Eight a Clock, l fill’d aTubewfth vety clean Qukk-iilver, and found the. Height a little to exceed 30,72 Inches. By Eight the next Morning, a Wheel-Barometer,which hung in the lame Room, had rifen One tenth o f an Inch higher than it was the Night before, when the Expem ^inent was made ; at Ten a Clock, One fifth of an ihcB more : At which Time it was ar the highefl, be ing a little above 30*81 Inches ̂ Icnr ibbut Twelve at Noon it was fenfibfy lower, and continued falng aB t ie reft of the Bay . When the lower find of the Tube was firfi immersd Ihthe CMterifi # e <^fek4 h^r fer feme Time adher’d of the Gta&y but upon lhaking, i t ftfl
{"title":"V. Observation of an extraordinary height of the barometer, December 21. 1721","authors":"George Graham","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1720.0054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1720.0054","url":null,"abstract":"Y TP O N Thtirfdayt he lif t of ol> L / ferving the Barometer much higher than ufual r that Evening, between Seven and Eight a Clock, l fill’d aTubewfth vety clean Qukk-iilver, and found the. Height a little to exceed 30,72 Inches. By Eight the next Morning, a Wheel-Barometer,which hung in the lame Room, had rifen One tenth o f an Inch higher than it was the Night before, when the Expem ^inent was made ; at Ten a Clock, One fifth of an ihcB more : At which Time it was ar the highefl, be ing a little above 30*81 Inches ̂ Icnr ibbut Twelve at Noon it was fenfibfy lower, and continued falng aB t ie reft of the Bay . When the lower find of the Tube was firfi immersd Ihthe CMterifi # e <^fek4 h^r fer feme Time adher’d of the Gta&y but upon lhaking, i t ftfl","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"10 1","pages":"222 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89354881","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}
1. Dr. Halley's method of computing the ratio of the diameter of the circle to its circumference was considered by himself, and other learned mathematicians, as the easiest the problem admits of. And although, in the course of a century, much easier methods have been discovered, still a celebrated mathematician of our own times has expressed an opinion, that no other aliquot part of the circumference of a circle can be so easily computed by means of its tangent as that which was chosen by Dr. Halley, viz. the arch of 30 degrees. This opinion, whether it be just or not, I shall not now inquire; my present design being to show, how the series by which Dr. Halley computed the ratio of the diameter to the circumference of the circle, may be transformed into others of swifter convergency, and which, on account of the successive powers of 1/10 which occur in them, admit of an easy summation. 2. This transformation is obtained by means of different forms in which the fluents of some fluxions may be expressed. To proceed with the greater clearness, I will here set down the fluxion in a general form, and its fluent, in the two series which are used in the following particular instance, and maybe applied with advantage in similar cases.
{"title":"XVI. Dr. Halley's quadrature of the circle improved: being a transformation of his series for that purpose to others which converge by the powers of 80","authors":"John Hellins","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1794.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1794.0019","url":null,"abstract":"1. Dr. Halley's method of computing the ratio of the diameter of the circle to its circumference was considered by himself, and other learned mathematicians, as the easiest the problem admits of. And although, in the course of a century, much easier methods have been discovered, still a celebrated mathematician of our own times has expressed an opinion, that no other aliquot part of the circumference of a circle can be so easily computed by means of its tangent as that which was chosen by Dr. Halley, viz. the arch of 30 degrees. This opinion, whether it be just or not, I shall not now inquire; my present design being to show, how the series by which Dr. Halley computed the ratio of the diameter to the circumference of the circle, may be transformed into others of swifter convergency, and which, on account of the successive powers of 1/10 which occur in them, admit of an easy summation. 2. This transformation is obtained by means of different forms in which the fluents of some fluxions may be expressed. To proceed with the greater clearness, I will here set down the fluxion in a general form, and its fluent, in the two series which are used in the following particular instance, and maybe applied with advantage in similar cases.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"22 1","pages":"217 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85324793","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}
It was desired some time since, by Mr. Walsh, whose experiments at La Rochelle had determined the effect of the torpedo to be electrical, to dissect and examine the peculiar organs by which that animal produces so extraordinary an effect. This I have done in several subjects furnished to me by that Gentleman.
{"title":"XL. Anatomical observations on the torpedo.","authors":"J. Hunter","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1773.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1773.0040","url":null,"abstract":"It was desired some time since, by Mr. Walsh, whose experiments at La Rochelle had determined the effect of the torpedo to be electrical, to dissect and examine the peculiar organs by which that animal produces so extraordinary an effect. This I have done in several subjects furnished to me by that Gentleman.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"14 1","pages":"481 - 489"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91107415","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, 1805","authors":"","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1806.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1806.0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"30 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":"89450395","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}
At a Pot-house belonging to Mr. Oad in Gravel-Lane, a large Part of the Roof, containing near two Square, was intirely thrown down by the last Earthquake, March 8. 1750. and several Fishermen, then at Work, imagined a Porpoise, of some other large Fifth, had risen under their Boat.
{"title":"XLV. An account of part of a roof of a pot-house at Lambeth being flung down by the earthquake, March 8. 1749-50","authors":"W. Jackson","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1749.0159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1749.0159","url":null,"abstract":"At a Pot-house belonging to Mr. Oad in Gravel-Lane, a large Part of the Roof, containing near two Square, was intirely thrown down by the last Earthquake, March 8. 1750. and several Fishermen, then at Work, imagined a Porpoise, of some other large Fifth, had risen under their Boat.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"74 1","pages":"700 - 700"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90291214","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}
'T p A k e of fmall thin Copper Pieces clean'd in the Fire X Aquafortisfiij.which being together in a Glais the Copper ;in Three or Four Hours wilt be difiotv'd, when ’tis cola you may ufe it, by wlihing with a Feather upon your Iron, that is prefentjy made clean and fmooth and it will prefcntly take the Colour of Copper; when it cometh out with much rubbing you may renew^lt again, but if you do it twice together, the Iron will look black.
在Fire X aquafortify中清洗了一些小的薄铜片。铜锅里的铜锅放在一起,三四个小时后就会煮熟。这时,你可以用羽毛在熨斗上吹一吹,把熨斗弄得干干净净、光洁光滑,熨斗就会呈现出铜色。当熨斗磨出来时,你可以重新熨一遍,但如果你同时熨两次,熨斗就会变黑。
{"title":"XI. To give iron the colour and tincture of copper","authors":"R. Southwell","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1698.0062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1698.0062","url":null,"abstract":"'T p A k e of fmall thin Copper Pieces clean'd in the Fire X Aquafortisfiij.which being together in a Glais the Copper ;in Three or Four Hours wilt be difiotv'd, when ’tis cola you may ufe it, by wlihing with a Feather upon your Iron, that is prefentjy made clean and fmooth and it will prefcntly take the Colour of Copper; when it cometh out with much rubbing you may renew^lt again, but if you do it twice together, the Iron will look black.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"55 1","pages":"296 - 296"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73578087","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}