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  • Thumbnail for Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
    March 1665 in the modern New Style calendar) ordered that "the Philosophical Transactions, to be composed by Mr Oldenburg, be printed the first Monday...
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    Mathematics "For his Paper on Astronomical Refractions, published in the Philosophical Transactions for the year 1823; and his other valuable Papers on Mathematical...
    150 KB (4,175 words) - 15:29, 28 August 2024
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    Communications printed in the Philosophical Transactions. (Evelyn)" "For his Chemical Communications printed in the Philosophical Transactions. (Hatchett)" 1799...
    132 KB (5,261 words) - 18:14, 27 September 2024
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    understood. The meteor was the subject of much discussion in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and was the subject of a detailed study...
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  • Johann Jacob Diesbach, in 1706), publishing on these topics in the Philosophical Transactions. McConnell, Anita. "Browne, John". Oxford Dictionary of National...
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  • Cave was published in 1687 by Johann Weikhard von Valvasor in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. He also published an engraving of it....
    4 KB (386 words) - 09:00, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Faraday wave
    Faraday first described them in an appendix to an article in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London in 1831. If a layer of liquid...
    7 KB (714 words) - 03:32, 24 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Elton's quadrant
    his design in 1728 and published details of the instrument in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1732. This instrument clearly reflects...
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  • Thumbnail for An Inquiry Concerning the Source of the Heat Which Is Excited by Friction
    by Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, which was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1798. The paper provided a substantial...
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  • projects like the prominence of a rock. It was described in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society as making a sufficient extension and counter-extension...
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  • Sloane, with several reports on such animals being published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. After returning to land in 1708 he started...
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  • Thumbnail for Charles François de Cisternay du Fay
    paper written in December 1733 and printed in Volume 38 of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1734. He became a member of the French...
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  • Thumbnail for Johann Konrad Ammann
    which was often reprinted, and was reproduced by John Wallis in the Philosophical Transactions (1698). His process consisted principally of drawing the attention...
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  • Thumbnail for Cavendish experiment
    measurements with the equipment and reported his results in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1798. The apparatus consisted of a torsion...
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  • Thumbnail for Georg Joseph Kamel
    learned world. A number of Kamel's treatises were published in the Philosophical Transactions, while his descriptions of Philippine flora appeared as an appendix...
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  • Literary Curiosities and Literary Intelligence. He indexed the Philosophical Transactions, collaborated with Samuel Ayscough on a catalogue of the British...
    3 KB (329 words) - 16:50, 7 June 2023
  • R Moslyn(?) (no 136. p890, volume XII (1677)) reprinted in The Philosophical transactions of the Royal society of London, from their commencement in 1665...
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  • Thumbnail for Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts
    distinguished the new journal from the established scientific journal The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. By one account this less-formal model...
    7 KB (805 words) - 06:52, 17 March 2023
  • significant events. March – Roger Cotes publishes Logometrica in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. He provides the first proof of what becomes...
    4 KB (389 words) - 18:08, 4 August 2024
  • generated from coal was combustible. He described his discovery in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Bergius process Clean coal technology...
    3 KB (293 words) - 05:56, 30 June 2024
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