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CONTENTS
VOL. I.
1800.
- The Croonian Lecture. On the Structure and Uses of the Membrana Tympani of the Ear. By Everard Home, Esq. F.R.S.
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- On the Method of determining, from the real Probabilities of Life, the Values of Contingent Reversions in which three Lives are involved in the Survivorship. By William Morgan, Esq. F.R.S.
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- Abstract of a Register of the Barometer, Thermometer, and Rain, at Lyndon, in Rutland, for the 1798. By Thomas Barker, Esq.
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- On the Power of penetrating into Space by Telescopes; with a comparative Determination of the Extent of that Power in natural Vision, and in Telescopes of various Sizes and Constructions; illustrated by select Observtions. By William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S.
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- A second Appendix to the improved Solution of a Problem in physical Astronomy, inserted in the Philosophical Transactions for the Year 1798, containing some further Remarks, and improved Formulæ for computing the Coefficients A and B; by which the arithmetical Work is considerably shortened and facilitated. By the Rev. John Hellins, B.D. F.R.S.
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- Account of a Peculiarity in the Distribution of the Arteries sent to the Limbs of slow-moving Animals; together with some other similar Facts. In a Letter from Mr. Anthony Carlisle, Surgeon, to John Symmons, Esq. F.R.S.
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- Outlines of Experiments and Inquiries respecting Sound and Light. By Thomas Young, M.D. F.R.S.
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- Observations on the Effects which take place from the Destruction of the Membrana Tympani of the Ear. By Mr. Astley Cooper
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- Experiments and Observations on the Light which is spontaneously emitted, with some degree of Permanency, from various Bodies. By Nathaniel Hulme, M.D. F.R.S.
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- Account of a Series of Experiments, undertaken with the view of decomposing the Muriatic Acid
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- On double Images caused by atmospherical Refraction. By William Hyde Wollaston, M.D. F.R.S.
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- On a new fulminating Mercury. By Edward Howard, Esq. F.R.S.
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