Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 471 pages of information about Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men.

Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 471 pages of information about Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men.
1786. Phil Trans., vol., lxxvi.—­Catalogue of a Thousand Nebulae and Clusters of Stars.—­Researches on the Cause of a Defect of Definition in Vision, which has been attributed to the Smallness of the Optic Pencils.

     1787. Phil.  Trans., vol. lxxvii.—­Remarks on the new
     Comet.—­Discovery of Two Satellites revolving round George’s
     Planet.—­On Three Volcanoes in the Moon.

     1788. Phil.  Trans., vol. lxxviii.—­On George’s Planet (Uranus)
     and its Satellites.

1789. Phil.  Trans., vol. lxxix.—­Observations on a Comet.  Catalogue of a Second Thousand new Nebulae and Clusters of Stars.—­Some Preliminary Remarks on the Constitution of the Heavens.
1790. Phil.  Trans., vol. lxxx.—­Discovery of Saturn’s Sixth and Seventh Satellites; with Remarks on the Constitution of the Ring, on the Planet’s Rotation round an Axis, on its Spheroidal Form, and on its Atmosphere.—­On Saturn’s Satellites, and the Rotation of the Ring round an Axis.

     1791. Phil.  Trans., vol. lxxxi.—­On the Nebulous Stars and the
     Suitableness of this Epithet.

     1792. Phil.  Trans., vol. lxxxii.—­On Saturn’s Ring, and the
     Rotation of the Planet’s Fifth Satellite round an Axis.—­Mixed
     Observations.

     1793. Phil.  Trans., vol. lxxxiii.—­Observations on the Planet
     Venus.

     1794. Phil.  Trans., vol. lxxxiv.—­Observations on a Quintuple
     Band in Saturn.—­On some Peculiarities observed during the last
     Solar Eclipse.—­On Saturn’s Rotation round an Axis.

     1795. Phil.  Trans., vol. lxxxv.—­On the Nature and Physical
     Constitution of the Sun and Stars.—­Description of a Reflecting
     Telescope forty feet in length.

1796. Phil.  Trans., vol. lxxxvi.—­Method of observing the Changes that happen to the Fixed Stars; Remarks on the Stability of our Sun’s Light.—­Catalogue of Comparative Brightness, to determine the Permanency of the Lustre of Stars.—­On the Periodical Star a Herculis, with Remarks tending to establish the Rotatory Motion of the Stars on their Axes; to which is added a second Catalogue of the Brightness of the Stars.
1797. Phil.  Trans., vol. lxxxvii.—­A Third Catalogue of the comparative Brightness of the Stars; with an Introductory Account of an Index to Mr. Flamsteed’s Observations of the Fixed Stars, contained in the Second Volume of the Historia Coelestis to which are added several useful Results derived from that Index.—­Observations of the changeable Brightness of the Satellites of Jupiter, and of the Variation in their apparent Magnitudes; with a Determination of the Time of their rotary Motions on their Axes, to which is added a Measure of the Diameter of the Second Satellite, and an Estimate of the comparative Size of the Fourth.
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