Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 31Taylor & Francis, 1881 |
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Page ix - Pendulum vibrating Seconds of Mean Time in the Latitude of London in a Vacuum at the Level of the Sea...
Page xvi - Continent; and he received the honorary degree of LLD. from the University of Edinburgh in 1859.
Page 245 - By radiation across the intervening space j (2) By communicating an increase of motion to the molecules of the gas, which carry it to the thermometer. It is quite conceivable that a considerable part, especially in the case of heat of low refrangibility, may be transferred by
Page 95 - The PRESIDENT then delivered his Address, (p. 65.) It was proposed by Mr. LATHAM, seconded by Mr. FIELD, and resolved:— " That the thanks of the Society be given to the President for his Address, and that he be requested to allow it to be printed in the Quarterly Journal of the Society.
Page ix - Lassell, seeing that he belongs to that class of observers who have created their own instrumental means — who have felt their own wants, and supplied them in their own way.
Page ix - ... feet in focal length, and mounting it upon the same principle. The circumstances of his local situation, in the centre of manufacturing industry and mechanical construction, were eminently favourable to the success of this undertaking ; and in Mr. Nasmyth he was fortunate...
Page ix - Rosse at Birr Castle, and commenced the specula for the new instrument upon a machine similar in construction to that employed by that nobleman. After some months' work, he was not satisfied with this apparatus, and was led in consequence to contrive a machine for imitating as closely as possible those motions of the hand by which he had been accustomed to. produce perfect surfaces on smaller specula. " The essential difference of these constructions...
Page 245 - We may legitimately infer that each additional diminution of a millionth would produce a still greater retardation of cooling, so that in such vacua as exist in planetary space the loss of heat — which in that case would only take place by radiation — would be exceedingly slow.
Page xxii - It would be impossible to give here a detailed account of the difficulties attendant upon this inquiry.
Page ix - Sept., 1847, the satellite of Neptune ; and in Sept., 1848, simultaneously with the late Professor Bond, in America, he discovered Hyperion, an eighth satellite of Saturn. In 1851, after long and careful search, he discovered...