Volume 106 (1816)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

29 articles

Articles

Front Matter

Anonymous (10 pages)
On the Fire-Damp of Coal Mines, and on Methods of Lighting the Mines So as to Prevent Its Explosion

H. Davy (26 pages)
An Account of an Invention for Giving Light in Explosive Mixtures of Fire-Damp in Coal Mines, by Consuming the Fire-Damp

Humphry Davy (3 pages)
On the Developement of Exponential Functions; Together with Several New Theorems Relating to Finite Differences

John Frederick W. Herschel (22 pages)
On New Properties of Heat, as Exhibited in Its Propagation along Plates of Glass

David Brewster (74 pages)
Farther Experiments on the Combustion of Explosive Mixtures Confined by Wire-Gauze, with Some Observations on Flame

H. Davy (6 pages)
Some Observations and Experiments Made on the Torpedo of the Cape of Good Hope in the Year 1812

John T. Todd (8 pages)
Direct and Expeditious Methods of Calculating the Excentric from the Mean Anomaly of a Planet

Abram Robertson (12 pages)
Demonstrations of the Late Dr. Maskelyne's Formulae for Finding the Longitude and Latitude of a Celestial Object from Its Right Ascension and Declination; And for Finding Its Right Ascension and Declination from Its Longitude and Latitude, the Obliquity of the Ecliptic Being Given in Both Cases

Abram Robertson (13 pages)
Some Account of the Feet of Those Animals Whose Progressive Motion Can Be Carried on in Opposition to Gravity

Everard Home (10 pages)
On the Communication of the Structure of Doubly Refracting Crystals to Glass, Muriate of Soda, Fluor Spar, and Other Substances, by Mechanical Compression and Dilatation

David Brewster (26 pages)
Meteorological Journal, Kept at the Apartments of the Royal Society, by Order of the President and Council

Anonymous (27 pages)
An Essay towards the Calculus of Functions. Part II

C. Babbage (80 pages)
Experiments and Observations to Prove That the Beneficial Effects of Many Medicines are Produced through the Medium of the Circulating Blood, More Particularly That of the Colchicum Autumnale upon the Gout

Everard Home (6 pages)
An Appendix to a Paper on the Effects of the Colchicum Autumnale on Gout

Everard Home (4 pages)
On the Cutting Diamond

W. H. Wollaston (6 pages)
An Account of the Discovery of a Mass of Native Iron in Brasil

A. F. Mornay (13 pages)
Observations and Experiments on the Mass of Native Iron Found in Brasil

W. H. Wollaston (6 pages)
On Ice Found in the Bottoms of Rivers

T. A. Knight (4 pages)
On the Action of Detached Leaves of Plants

T. A. Knight (6 pages)
On the Manufacture of the Sulphate of Magnesia at Monte della Guardia, Near Genoa

H. Holland (8 pages)
On the Formation of Fat in the Intestine of the Tadpole, and on the Use of the Yelk in the Formation of the Embryo in the Egg

Everard Home (11 pages)
On the Structure of the Crystalline Lens in Fishes and Quadrupeds, as Ascertained by Its Action on Polarised Light

David Brewster (9 pages)
Some Farther Account of the Fossil Remains of an Animal, of Which a Description Was Given to the Society in 1814

Everard Home (9 pages)
Farther Observations on the Feet of Animals Whose Progressive Motion Can Be Carried on against Gravity

Everard Home (15 pages)
A New Demonstration of the Binomial Theorem

Thomas Knight (5 pages)
On the Fluents of Irrational Functions

Edward Ffrench Bromhead (21 pages)
Errata

Anonymous (2 pages)
Back Matter

Anonymous (15 pages)