49 results filtered with: Edmond Halley
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An historical account of the trade winds and monsoons, observable in the seas between and near the tropics, with an attempt to assign the physical cause of the said winds / by Ed. Halley.
Edmond HalleyDate: 1708- Books
An estimate of the quantity of the vapours raised out of the sea derived from experiment. Together with an account of the circulation of the watry vapours of the sea, and of the cause of springs : presented to the Royal Society / By E. Halley.
Edmond HalleyDate: 1708- Books
Some account of the ancient state of the city of Palmyra, with short remarks upon the inscriptions found there / By E. Halley.
Edmond HalleyDate: 1708- Books
The three voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore, 1698-1701 / edited by Norman J.W. Thrower.
Edmond HalleyDate: 1981, ©1980- Books
Some account of the ancient state of the city of Palmyra, with short remarks upon the inscriptions found there / By E. Halley.
Edmond HalleyDate: 1708- Books
An account of Robert Hook's invention of the marine barometer, with its description and uses; published by order of the Royal Society / by E. Halley.
Edmond HalleyDate: 1708- Books
An instance of the excellence of the modern algebra, in the resolution of the problem of finding the foci of optick glasses universally / By E. Halley.
Edmond HalleyDate: 1708- Books
A discourse concerning the proportional heat of the sun in all latitudes, with the method of collecting the same; as it was read before the Royal Society, in one of their late meetings / By E. Halley.
Edmond HalleyDate: 1708- Books
Miscellanea curiosa : containing a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age; being the most valuable discourses, read and delivered to the Royal Society, for the advancement of physical and mathematical knowledge. As also a collection of curious travels, voyages, antiquities, and natural histories of countries; presented to the same Society. In three volumes.
Date: 1708
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The gentleman's steward and tenants of manors instructed. Containing rational, easy, and familiar rules and tables for finding the value of estates of freehold, copyhold, or leasehold, as well on lives as for years absolute, &c. With an enquiry into the nature of the annual disbursements, precariousness of the tenure, and casualties, that estates are charged with, and how they are to be accounted for in the valuation. The tables being founded on Dr. Halley's hypothesis, and calculated by the method laid down by Abr. de Moivre / To which is added an appendix, containing the description and use of an instrument for discovering the number of feet contained in any timber-trees, by inspection only.
Richards, John, land surveyor.Date: 1730- Books
A discourse of the rule of the decrease of the height of the mercury in the barometer, according as places are elevated above the surface of the earth; with an attempt to discover the true reason of the rising and falling of the mercury, upon change of weather / by Edm. Halley.
Edmond HalleyDate: 1708- Books
A theory of the variation of the magnetical compass / By Ed. Halley.
Edmond HalleyDate: 1708- Books
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Ephemeris ad annum a nativitate Domini, 1686 : et ad longitudinem urbis Londinensis ex novis hypothesibus exactissime supputata et Regiæ Societati dicata.
Edmond HalleyDate: 1686- Books
A discourse concerning gravity, and its properties : wherein the descent of heavy bodies, and the motion of projects is briefly, but fully handled: Together with the solution of a problem of great use in gunnery / By E. Halley.
Edmond HalleyDate: 1708- Books
Universal arithmetick: or, a treatise of arithmetical composition and resolution. To which is added, Dr. Halley's method of finding the roots of aequations arithmetically / Translated from the Latin by the late Mr. Raphson, and revised and corrected by Mr. Cunn.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727. Arithmetica universalis. EnglishDate: 1720
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Miscellanea curiosa: being a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature / [Edmond Halley].
Edmond HalleyDate: 1705- Books
An account of the cause of the change of the variation of the magnetical needle, with an hypothesis of the structure of the internal parts of the earth, as it was proposed to the Royal Society in one of their late meetings / By Edmund Halley.
Edmond HalleyDate: 1708- Books
An account of Robert Hook's invention of the marine barometer, with its description and uses; published by order of the Royal Society / by E. Halley.
Edmond HalleyDate: 1708- Books
A discourse of the rule of the decrease of the height of the mercury in the barometer, according as places are elevated above the surface of the earth; with an attempt to discover the true reason of the rising and falling of the mercury, upon change of weather / by Edm. Halley.
Edmond HalleyDate: 1708
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A voyage to the South-Sea, and along the coasts of Chili and Peru, in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. Particularly describing the genius and constitution of the inhabitants, as well Indians as Spaniards ... / By Monsieur Frezier ... Illustrated with 37 copper-cutts of the coasts ... printed from the author's original plates ... With a postscript by Dr. Edmund Halley ... And an account of the settlement, commerce, and riches of the Jesuites in Paraguay.
Amédée-François FrézierDate: 1717
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A philosophical and familiar essay on comets ... / from the writings of Sir Isaac Newton, Dr. Halley, etc. including an account of the great comet, which apeared in 1680 ... as also of those subsequent, and the present comet.
Rivers, DavidDate: [1811]- Books
The famous Isaac Newton's theory of the moon.
Date: 1708- Books
Miscellanea curiosa : containing a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age; being the most valuable discourses, read and delivered to the Royal Society, for the advancement of physical and mathematical knowledge. As also a collection of curious travels, voyages, antiquities, and natural histories of countries; presented to the same Society. In three volumes.
Date: 1708- Books
A discourse concerning the proportional heat of the sun in all latitudes, with the method of collecting the same; as it was read before the Royal Society, in one of their late meetings / By E. Halley.
Edmond HalleyDate: 1708