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Articles
Issue: 010, 26/02/28 p. 152
Heading: Conductibility of Electricity
Category: Physics  
Topic: [Conductibility of electricity in a body dependent on quantity of electricity]
Institution: Academie des Sciences  
Letter
Issue: 019, 28/03/28 p. 299
Heading: Mr. Carpenter`s Microcosm, Regent Street
Category: Physics Mechanics Microscopy  
Topic: [Public exhibition using fourteen microscopes, in London]
Person: CARPENTER, Mr.  
Exhibition
Issue: 030, 14/05/28 p. 472, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Acoustics), Para 4
Category: Physics Sound  
Topic: Motions of Sand on Metallic Plates and Agitated Membranes
Person: CHLADNI, (of Berlin) SAVART, M. SCHWEIGGER  
Source: Schweigger`s Jahrbuch, xx.176  
Issue: 030, 14/05/28 p. 472, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Optics), Para 6
Category: Physics Light  
Topic: Coloured Shadows. [Violet tinge of Alps explained]
Issue: 030, 14/05/28 p. 472, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Optics), Para 6
Category: Physics Microscopy  
Topic: Test of Microscopes. [A good test is a butterfly`s wing]
Person: GORING, Dr.  
Issue: 031, 28/05/28 p. 489, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Acoustics), Para 5
Category: Physics Sound  
Topic: Medium of Sound
Issue: 031, 28/05/28 p. 489, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Optics), Para 7
Category: Physics Light  
Topic: Inflection of Light. [If a luminous body is looked at through thin cloth, it is multiplied]
Issue: 032, 04/06/28 p. 505, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Optics, Para 6
Category: Physics Light  
Topic: Colours of the Sea. [Description of the varied appearance of the sea]
Issue: 034, 18/06/28 p. 537, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Optics), Para 6
Category: Astronomy Physics Light  
Topic: Light of the Moon
Person: BONGUER, M. DE LA HIRE, M.  
Issue: 040, 30/07/28 p. 636, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Optics), Para 6
Category: Astronomy Physics Light  
Topic: Rapidity of Light. [c=170,000 miles per second]
Person: HERSCHEL  
Issue: 044, 27/08/28 p. 701, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Meteorology), Para 5
Category: Meteorology Physics Light  
Topic: Sunset on the Alps. [Description of effects of light and mist]
Source: Saussure: Voyages dans les Alpes  
Issue: 048, 24/09/28 p. 766, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Acoustics), Para 6
Category: Physics Sound  
Topic: Mountain Echo. [Repeated Alpine echoes described by Lord Byron as if animate]
Person: BYRON, Lord  
Source: Saussure: Voyages dans les Alpes  
Issue: 049, 01/10/28 p. 781, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Acoustics), Para 6
Category: Physics Sound  
Topic: Concord and Discord
Source: Magazine of Natural History  
Issue: 051, 15/10/28 p. 811, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Animated Nature. (Conchology), Para 3
Category: Zoology Mollusca Physics Light  
Topic: Beautiful Light of the Glow-shell. [The phosphorescence observed in shells of the genus Pholas may be extinguished in certain, especially dry, conditions. White, yellow, green, red and violet-coloured substances react in different ways to contact with the liquor which produces the phosphorescent effect]
Person: ACADEMICIANS OF BOLOGNA REAUMUR PLINY  
Issue: 051, 15/10/28 p. 812, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Aromatology), Para 5
Category: Physics Chemistry Electricity  
Topic: Odours affected by Electricity. [An electric current causes camphor, or any "odoriferous substance", to lose its smell. This returns if the substance has contact with the ground]
Person: LIBRI, M. (of Florence)  
Issue: 054, 05/11/28 p. 861, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Optics), Para 9
Category: Physics Light  
Topic: Light and Darkness. [Without darkness there would be no perceptible light]
Person: LE SAYA, M.  
Issue: 058, 03/12/28 p. 924, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Optics), Para 11
Category: Medicine Opthalmology Physics Optics  
Topic: Reading Glasses known to the Ancients
Person: PLINY SENECA  
Issue: 063, 07/01/29 p. 14, Section: Popular Literature
Heading: Biographical, Para 4
Category: Physics Science Professional Ethics Literature Biography  
Topic: Newton and Stillingfleet. [Whiston, who wrote the "Theory of the Earth" reports that he angered Newton by contradicting him, and was publicly silenced out of fear of angering Newton further, and even of killing him. There are other examples of professional rifts, such as that of Stillingfleet and Locke]
Person: WHISTON NEWTON, Sir Isaac STILLINGFLEET BENTLEY, Dr. LOCKE  
Source: Whiston: Theory of the Earth  
Issue: 067, 04/02/29 p. 78, Section: Popular Science
Heading: Non-Animated Nature. (Botany), Para 7
Category: Botany Physics Optics Light  
Topic: Alpine Flowers. [Do the brilliant alpine flowers, in some sense take their colours from the intense blue sky?]
Issue: 076, 08/04/29 p. 217-218
Heading: The Museum of Thoughts. IV.--Novalis
Category: Science Philosophy Logic Metaphysics Psychology Chemistry Physics Mathematics Poetry Literature  
Topic: [A series of definitions of the nature of thought and thinking]
Issue: 083, 27/05/29 p. 332-333
Heading: Royal Institution
Category: Physics Vibrations Sound  
Topic: [An enthusiastic account of Faraday`s lecture on] the operation of vibration on the surfaces of elastic substances
Person: FARADAY WHEATSTONE NOBLE PIGGOT WALLACE, Dr. [of Oxford] GALILEO CLADNE SAVARD  
Lecture, 22/05/29
Issue: 085, 10/06/29 p. 366, Section: Varieties
Heading: Influence of the Aurora Borealis on the Magnetic Needle, Para 2
Category: Physics Magnetism Electromagnetism Astronomy Geodesy  
Topic: [There is a puzzling correspondence between the movements of the magnetic needle in Paris and the occurrence of the Aurora Borealis, visible at Casan in Siberia. Since there seems to be so much evidence against a single magnetic pole, it is possible Siberia has a peculiar magnetic pole which influences other regions]
Person: ARAGO, M. BREWSTER, Dr.  
Institution: Academie des Sciences  
Issue: 086, 17/06/29 p. 379
Heading: Royal Institution
Category: Physics Optics Microscopy Glass Natural History Art  
Topic: [Farraday`s] experiments [in association with Dollond] to obtain a perfect material for the object-glasses of telescopes. [Account of the variable refracting properties of different densities of glass.] [At the same meeting, the exhibition of a specimen of New Forest Oak timber, to show its strength, by Mrs. Jones and Mr. Henning]
Person: FARADAY DOLLOND HERSCHEL WOLLASTON YOUNG DAVY, Sir Humphrey FRAUENHASSER JONES, Mrs. HENNING, Mr.  
Institution: Royal Institution Royal Society Society of Objects in Natural History and the Fine Arts  
Lecture, June, 1829
Issue: 093, 05/08/29 p. 491, Section: Miscellanies
Heading: Phenomena on Boring for Water, Para 5
Category: Geology Physics Magnetism  
Topic: [A water-boring instrument became magnetized by its passage through calcareous and siliceous earth]
Issue: 103, 14/10/29 p. 651, Section: Miscellanies
Heading: Comparative Strength of Various Substances, Para 2
Category: Physics Engineering  
Topic: [Emerson`s experiments on the weight which can safely be withstood by : iron, brass, certain woods, freestone. Also the length to which others can be stretched before breaking: cast steel, Swedish iron, English iron, cast iron, cast copper, yellow brass, cast tin, cast lead, hemp rope]
Person: EMERSON  
Issue: 107, 11/11/29 p. 714
Heading: London University
Category: Education Science Astronomy Political Economy Physics Chemistry  
Topic: [Opening of the ordinary session of the London University. Introductory lecture by Lardner]
Person: LARDNER, Dr. NEWTON, Sir Isaac LAVOISIER WATT, James DAVY, Sir Humphrey AMOS, Prof. DALE  
Institution: University of London  
Paper, 02/11/29
Issue: 110, 02/12/29 p. 763, Section: Miscellanies
Heading: Degree of Expansion by Heat in Different Substances, Para 9
Category: Chemistry Physics Heat  
Topic: [Table of information. Degrees of expansion in heat. Different substances in solid, liquid and gas forms]
Person: ARNOTT  
Source: Arnott: Physics  
Table
Issue: 115, 09/01/30 p. 14, Section: Science
Heading: Freezing of Rivers, Para 2
Category: Meteorology Physics Heat  
Topic: [Various causes of the freezing of rivers. Role of the atmosphere. Analysis of statistical information on the freezing of the Seine]
Source: Annuaire of the Board of Longitude, Paris, 1828  
Institution: Board of Longitude  
Issue: 121, 20/02/30 p. 106-107, Section: Science
Heading: Paris Academy of Sciences. A Physical Phenomenon explanatory of the Circulation observed in the stem of certain Plants, Para 4
Category: Physics Chemistry Plant Physiology  
Topic: [Two-column extract from a report in "le Globe". Dutrochet`s experiments on the effects of heat and light upon water in a tube]
Person: DUTROCHET, M. CORTI AMICI, M. BAILLIFF, M. Le  
Source: Le Globe  
Institution: Academie des Sciences  
Issue: 123, 06/03/30 p. 138
Heading: Royal Institution. Foundering of Ships Prevented
Category: Inventions Public Health Safety Accidents Engineering Physics Microscopy Mechanical Measuring Instruments Manufactures Labour  
Topic: [Two-column account of Watson`s lecture, explaining his scheme to prevent damaged ships sinking. Other paragraphs mention that, at the same meeting Dr. Wollaston`s Doublet microscope was on show, a mountain barometer, and specimens of cheap cutlery produced by division of labour]
Person: WATSON POCOCK WOLLASTON  
Institution: Royal Institution London Institution United States American Government  
Lecture, Feb., 1830
Issue: 123, 06/03/30 p. 139
Heading: Royal Society
Category: Physics Light Zoology Reptiles Steam Power  
Topic: [Three papers: on polarized light; the skin of the crocodile; the steam-engine and its history]
Person: BREWSTER, Dr. BELL, Charles GILBERT, Davies  
Institution: Royal Society  
Paper[s], Feb., 1830
Issue: 124, 13/03/30 p. 154
Heading: Transmission of Sound. Royal Institution
Category: Physics Sound Music  
Topic: At the conversazione on Friday the 5th inst., Mr Faraday gave a most able lecture on the transmission of sound through solid conductors, and the power of such substances to render audible the sound they conduct [...] to a great distance. [Four column report]
Person: FARADAY HERSCHEL HOOK, Dr.  
Institution: Royal Institution  
Lecture, 5/03/1830
Issue: 126, 27/03/30 p. 186-187
Heading: Photometry. Conversazione at the Royal Institution
Category: Physics Light Heat Geography Alps History Of Science  
Topic: [Ritchie`s lecture on] the comparison of the relative intensity of light
Person: RITCHIE RUMFORD, Count GAUTHIER LANDER WATSON LESLIE DRUMMOND  
Source: Watson: Chemical Essays Encyclopaedia Britannica  
Institution: Royal Institution Royal Society  
Lecture, 19/03/1830
Issue: 126, 27/03/30 p. 187
Heading: Royal Society
Category: Physics Light  
Topic: [Roget`s paper on the "Reflection of light from Specula" was ill attended. Many Fellows preferred coffee in the "Antiquaries room"]
Person: ROGET, Dr.  
Institution: Royal Society  
Paper, March, 1830
Issue: 127, 03/04/30 p. 206
Heading: Experiments on the Magnetic Needle
Category: Physics Magnetism Astronomy Geodesy  
Topic: [The delayed progress of Humboldt`s project to observe magnetic phenomena, at equinoxes and solstices. Simultaneous observations were intended to be made at Berlin, Frisberg, Paris, St. Petersburg, the Crimea and Siberia]
Person: HUMBOLDT PUKSCHIN, M. Masin KUPFER  
Issue: 127, 03/04/30 p. 207
Heading: Mechanical Collision exemplified in Pugilism
Category: Physics Mechanics  
Topic: [When a large and small body collide, the shock they sustain is the same]
Source: Cabinet Cyclopaedia  
Issue: 128, 10/04/30 p. 220
Heading: Radiation of Heat. Conversazione at the Royal Institution
Category: Physics Heat  
Topic: [...]difficulties attending experiments on heat, which have led to a supposition that cold exists as a positive principle, and that it is in certain cases actually radiated from a cold body
Person: AINGER  
Institution: Royal Institution  
Lecture, 02/04/1830
Issue: 129, 17/04/30 p. 238
Heading: Equestrian Feat explained
Category: Physics Mechanics  
Topic: The properties of compounded motions
Source: Cabinet Cyclopaedia  
Issue: 130, 24/04/30 p. 251
Heading: Royal Academy of Sciences and Belles Lettres, Brussels
Category: Mathematics Historical Sciences Libraries Archaeology Physics Magnetism  
Topic: [...] de Chastes, on newly-discovered properties in cones of the second degree [...] Dumortier [...] on two MSS. found in the library of Tournay [...] Roman buildings [...] by M. Reuvens [...] Quetelet [...] on magnetic intensity
Person: CHASTES, M. de DUMORTIER, M. HULTHEM, M. Von REUVENS, M. HUMBOLDT LEVY, Prof. QUETELET, M. LEVY, M. SAUVEUR, M.  
Institution: Royal Academy of Sciences and Belles Lettres, Brussels  
Paper[s], 03/04/1830
Issue: 131, 01/05/30 p. 266-267
Heading: On the Flowing of Sand. Conversazione at the Royal Institution
Category: Physics Mechanics Mechanical Properties Of Solids Engineering Mining  
Topic: [Sand flows out of a tube with a hole near the bottom at the same rate, whether the tube was filled up with it or nearly empty to begin with. Some of the weight must be borne by the sides of the tube. The resistance offered by sand in an open pipe makes it a useful material in mining, to confine the gunpowder when blasting rocks]
Person: FARADAY  
Institution: Royal Institution  
Lecture, 23/04/30
Issue: 132, 08/05/30 p. 283, Section: Foreign Correspondence
Heading: Munich, April, 1830, Para 2
Category: Social Sciences Statistics Education Political Economy Physics Law Christian Religion  
Topic: [One hundred and seventy lectures scheduled for the forthcoming summer session. The information given shows what subjects are emphasized ]
Institution: University of Munich  
Signed: "T. T."
Issue: 135, 29/05/30 p. 330-331
Heading: Production of Musical Sounds. Royal Institution. Conversazione, Friday, May 21
Category: Physics Sound Music Inventions Manufactures History Of Civilization General Coincident Historical Considerations  
Topic: [...]the invention and subsequent improvements of the method of arranging metallic springs, as a new principle for producing a continued musical sound. [The Athenaeum links this two-column report with that in Athenaeum 124, called "Transmission of Sound"]
Person: FARADAY DOWLER, Dr. DAY MANBY, Capt.  
Institution: Royal Institution  
Lecture, 21/05/1830
Issue: 136, 05/06/30 p. 350
Heading: Aurora Borealis, Para 15
Category: Physics Magnetism Electromagnetism Meteorology Climatology  
Topic: [A description of the aurora borealis seen at St. Petersburg on the 5th May, 1830]
Issue: 137, 12/06/30 p. 362-363
Heading: Theory of Colour. Royal Institution. Conversazione, Friday, June 4
Category: Physics Optics Light Psychology Philosophy Medicine Nervous System Sense Organs The Eye Sight Vision Art  
Topic: [Brockedon on colour. Its pleasure and interest. The spectrum. Primary or "primitive" colours. Complementary or "antagonist" colours. White and black. Black letters on printed posters "much modified by the complementary hue of the surrounding ground". "The radiated membrane" recently discovered in the human eye. An invention by Mr. Field to help artists gauge the effects of different colour combinations]
Person: BROCKEDON FERGUSON NEWTON, Sir Isaac FIELD  
Source: Ferguson: Lectures - Optics  
Institution: Royal Institution  
Lecture, 04/06/1830
Ed`s Mark: PARKE
Issue: 137, 12/06/30 p. 363
Heading: Royal Society. Thursday, June 10th
Category: Chemistry Mineralogy Physics Electricity Engineering  
Topic: [1. Thompson of Glasgow on minerals. 2. Fox on the electric current. 3. Members, including Brunel, elected Fellows]
Person: ROGET, Dr. THOMPSON, Dr. FOX BRUNEL  
Institution: Royal Society  
, 10/06/1830
Issue: 138, 19/06/30 p. 378-379
Heading: Royal Institution. Conversazione, Friday, June 11
Category: Physics Sound Music Inventions Time Time Measurement  
Topic: The lecture of this evening was one of several delivered this and the last season, in which the ingenious researches of Mr. Wheatstone have [...]contributed to the interest among the members [...] by the [...]developement, and [...] discoveries of the principles of sound
Person: WHEATSTONE GALILEO RAMEAU FARADAY  
Institution: Royal Institution  
Lecture, 11/06/1830
Ed`s Mark: PARKES
Issue: 138, 19/06/30 p. 378
Heading: Northern Asia. [Extracts from the Correspondence of Dr. Erman]
Category: Geography Social Anthropology Asia Tibet Russian Empire Physics Magnetism Electromagnetism Philosophy Of Science Religion  
Topic: A Visit to the Lamas of Siberia. [Extracts from an originally private correspondence between Dr. Erman in Tibet and his father, Professor Erman in Berlin. They are introduced by an editorial note: "To the scientific observer, they will afford novel and attractive matter, whether his pursuits be directed to the spacious field of nature, or the less sublime, though scarcely less interesting, study of man"]
Person: HANSTEEN, Prof. (of Christiana) DUE, Lieut. (of Christiana) ERMAN, Dr. ERMAN, Prof. CHAMBA-LAMA DALAI-LAMA of THIBET GENTIMUR, Prince (Officer of the Cossacks)  
Letter, Spring, 1829
Ed`s Mark: SMITH
Issue: 138, 19/06/30 p. 382
Category: Astronomy The Sun Physics Optics Light  
Topic: [At Lyons, a circle of primary colours has been observed round the sun]
Issue: 139, 26/06/30 p. 398
Category: Exploration Geography North Atlantic Ocean Iceland Botany Physics Magnetism Electromagnetism  
Topic: [The Russian government will send Capt. Lutke on a North Atlantic expedition to observe the variations of the magnetic needle]
Person: LUTKE, Capt. MERTENS, Mr.  
Institution: Imperial Academy of Sciences  
Issue: 140, 03/07/30 p. 414
Heading: Preservation of Wine, Para 11
Category: Food Wine-making Physics Engineering Inventions  
Topic: [...]M. Collardeau contrived a machine which he presented to the Academie des Sciences, for trying the strength of bottles by an arrangement similar to Bramah`s hydraulic press..
Person: COLLARDEAU, M.  
Institution: Academie des Sciences  
Issue: 140, 03/07/30 p. 414
Heading: Substitute for Fire, Para 12
Category: Physics Heat Engineering Inventions  
Topic: [A new machine which produces heat]
Issue: 142, 17/07/30 p. 443-444
Heading: Steam-Carriages
Category: Steam Power Physics Mechanics Engineering Philosophy Of Science Theory And Practice  
Topic: [The limitations of steam power. Steam engines could not be made to go up hills without making them wastefully large. As yet this only makes them suitable for level railways. It is impossible to predict what future changes may be made. In the case of steam navigation it took from 1736 (when the idea of steam-boats was first patented) to 1805, to put a boat to sea]
Ed`s Mark: PARKE
Issue: 142, 17/07/30 p. 444
Heading: Sheathing of Ships
Category: Engineering Materials Testing Ships Physics Chemistry Philosophy Of Science Theory And Practice  
Topic: [Copper bottoms for ships are effective at stopping shells and seaweeds attaching themselves but the copper soon wears out. If the copper is in contact with zinc or iron, this does not happen. (Davy made some unsuccessful experiments on "sheathing" ships and another unnamed "scientific man" is working on the same thing now). Even if this research into electric action on metals may not be applied to the cladding of ships, it may be applied to other structures or in building]
Person: DAVY, Sir Humphrey  
Ed`s Mark: PARKE
Issue: 142, 17/07/30 p. 445-446
Heading: Chronoglobion, Para 1
Category: Astronomy Physics Inventions Mechanical Measuring Instruments Time  
Topic: This most ingenious contrivance exhibits [the time, the time of day all over the globe, day of the month, motion of the earth, motion of the sun, position of earth and sun, the position of the moon in relation to the earth and sun, the turning of the moon and its eclipses]
Person: ASTRONOMER IMPERIAL AT VIENNA ZIEBERMAYR  
Ed`s Mark: SMITH
Issue: 143, 24/07/30 p. 460
Heading: Velocity of Bodies. To the Editor of the Athenaeum
Category: Ornithology Animal Physiology Flight Physics Mechanics Fluid Mechanics Aeromechanics Steam Power  
Topic: [Letter responding to a short item in Athenaeum, Issue 142, p. 446, on the estimated speeds of different birds in the air. The letter says the paragraph in question makes a common mistake. It does not take into account the movements of the wind. It is the same mistake as overestimating the speed at which a steam boat travels by discounting the speed of the wind]
Letter
Signed: "H."; Ed`s Mark: PARKE
Issue: 143, 24/07/30 p. 462
Heading: A Literary Radical, Para 13
Category: Philosophy Natural Philosophy Natural History Physics Astronomy  
Topic: [The Athenaeum has seen the prospectus of a book by Sieber. It "will embrace medicine, physics, poetry, philosophy, and politics" and will surely be "among the aberrations of literary radicalism or radical hallucination"]
Person: SIEBER, Francis William NEWTON, Sir Isaac ARISTOTLE BACON, Lord LOCKE  
Source: Sieber: Systeme de la Nature Physique et Spirituelle  
Ed`s Mark: SMITH
Issue: 150, 11/09/30 p. 575
Heading: Height of the Caucasus, Para 11
Category: Geography Geodesy Mountains Caucasus Alps Physics Magnetism  
Topic: [The highest mountains in the Caucasus are higher than Mont Blanc. The force of magnetism is affected by altitude]
Person: KUPFER GAY-LUSSAC  
Issue: 155, 16/10/30 p. 649
Heading: The Moon`s Rays
Category: Astronomy The Moon Physics Light Heat Chemistry Meteorology  
Topic: [Moonlight and sunlight compared]
Signed: P. C.; Ed`s Mark: Philip Cunningham
Issue: 155, 16/10/30 p. 654
Heading: Colour of the Red Sea, Para 12
Category: Physics Optics Light Biology  
Topic: [Ehrenberg says the colour of the Red Sea comes from an Oscillatoria, "one of those Lilliputian products, which holds a place between the animal and vegetable kingdoms"
Person: EHRENBERG  
Source: Ehrenberg: Travels in Egypt  
Ed`s Mark: SMITH
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Reviews
Issue: 001, 02/01/28 p. 8-10
Heading: The Sciences
Category: Physics  
Title: Elements of Physics; or Natural Philosophy, General and Medical
Author: ARNOTT, Neil  
Issue: 042, 13/08/28 p. 660-661
Heading: Watkins on Electro-Magnetism
Category: Physics Electromagnetism  
Title: A Popular Sketch of Electro-Magnetism, or Electro-Dynamics; with Plates of the most approved Apparatus for Illustrating the principal Phenomena of the Science, and Outlines of the Parent Sciences Electricity and Magnetism
Author: WATKINS, Francis  
Issue: 087, 24/06/29 p. 389
Heading: Natural Philosophy
Category: Physics Chemistry  
Title: Principles of Natural Philosophy; or, a New Theory of Physics, founded on Gravitation, and applied in Explaining the General Properties of Matter, the Phenomena of Chemistry, Electricity, Galvanism, Magnetism, and Electro-Magnetism
Author: EXLEY, Thomas  
Attribution: Associate of the Bristol Philosophical and Literary Society
Institution: Bristol Philosophical and Literary Society  
Issue: 094, 12/08/29 p. 497-498
Heading: The Pursuit of Knowledge
Category: Physics Mechanics Barometers Philosophy Of Science  
Title: The Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Vol. III. Part I. The Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties; illustrated by Anecdotes
Issue: 101, 30/09/29 p. 609
Heading: Mechanics
Category: Mechanics Physics Engineering Mathematics  
Title: A concise System of Mechanics in Theory and Practice, with Original and Practical Remarks, Rules, Experiments, Tables, and Calculations, for the Use of Practical Men
Author: HAY, James  
Attribution: Land Surveyor
Issue: 110, 02/12/29 p. 749-750
Heading: Elements of Physics, Etc
Category: Physics Natural Philosophy Philosophy Of Science Heat  
Title: Elements of Physics, or Natural Philosophy, General and Medical, explained independently of Technical Mathematics. In two volumes. Volume II. Part I comprehending the subjects of Heat and Light
Author: ARNOTT, Neil  
Attribution: M. D.; Of the Royal College of Physicians
Institution: Royal College of Physicians  
Issue: 111, 09/12/29 p. 768-770
Heading: Elements of Physics, Etc. (Concluded from p. 749)
Category: Physics Light Optics Medicine Sense Organs  
Title: Elements of Physics, or Natural Philosophy, General and Medical, explained independently of Technical Mathematics. In two volumes. Volume II. Part I. comprehending the subjects of Heat and Light
Author: ARNOTT, Neil  
Attribution: M.D.; Of the Royal College of Physicians
Institution: Royal College of Physicians  
Issue: 120, 13/02/30 p. 82-83
Heading: Sir H. Davy`s Posthumous Work
Category: Philosophy Of Science History Of Science Christian Religion Geology Astronomy Physics Chemistry  
Title: Consolations in Travel; or, The Last Days of a Philosopher
Author: DAVY, Sir Humphrey  
Attribution: Late President of the Royal Society
Institution: Royal Society  
Issue: 123, 06/03/30 p. 135
Category: Physics Time Education Children Popularization Of Science  
Title: Conversations on Comparative Chronology
Author: ANON  
Issue: 127, 03/04/30 p. 201
Category: Science Encyclopaedias Political Economy Social Sciences Geography Geodesy Philosophy Mathematics Physics  
Title: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Seventh Edition; with the Supplement to the former Editions incorporated. Vol. I. Part I.
Issue: 132, 08/05/30 p. 276-278
Heading: Lardner`s Cabinet Cyclopaedia
Category: Encyclopaedias Physics Mechanics Popularization Of Science Philosophy Of Science History Of Science Philosophy Natural Philosophy Manufactures Labour Inventions Creativity  
Title: A Treatise on Mechanics
Author: KATER, Capt. Henry LARDNER, Rev. Dionysius  
Attribution: R. S.; LL. D.; F. R. S.
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