 This disclosure was made in a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London, dated March 20, 1800. Before this letter was published in the Philosophical Transactions its contents had become known to London physicists, and Nicholson...  Papers on Radiation, Chemistry: 1901-1912 - Page 148by Smithsonian Institution - 1901Full view - About this book
 | 1883 - 668 pages
...WORSHIP OP PRIAPUS. Being an Account of the Fete of St. Coemo and Damlano, celebrated at leernltt. In a Letter to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. By Sir WILLIAM HAMILTON, Minister at the Court of Napla. To which is added, Some Account of Phnlllc... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 650 pages
...the interposition of disks of pasteboard moistened in an acid solution. He announced this discovery in a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society, in March 1800, and won for himself a reputation in the foremost ranks of science. He had found the... | |
 | Benjamin Graf von Rumford - 1875 - 896 pages
...printed in the Academy's edition of Rumford's Works, Vol. I, pages 1-97. 3. New Experiments upon Heat. In a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. Presented to the Royal Society, March 9, 1786. Afterwards incorporated in the Eighth Essay. (See below,... | |
 | Cesare Cantù - 1883 - 122 pages
...IWorship of Priapus. Being an account of the Fete of ST. COSMO and DAMIANO, celebrated at ISERNIA, In a letter to SIR JOSEPH BANKS, President of the Royal Society. By SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, Minister at the Court of Naples. To which is added SOME ACCOUNT of PHALLIC... | |
 | 1883 - 672 pages
...THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS. Being an Aceuunt of the Fete of St. Cosmo and Damiano, celebrated at Iscrnia. In a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. By Sir WILLIAM HAMILTON, Minister at the Court of Naples. To wbloh Is added some Account of Phallic... | |
 | John Joseph Fahie - 1884 - 596 pages
...three years later, and it was not until the 20th March, 1800, that he published a description of it in a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. In this letter he thus writes : — " I took some dozens of discs of copper, brass, or better, of silver,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1884 - 100 pages
...The Worship of Priapus. Being an Account of the Fete of ST. COSMO and DAMIANO, celebrated at ISERNIA. In a letter to SIR JOSEPH BANKS, President of the Royal Society. By SIR WILLTAM HAMILTON, Minister at the Court of Naples. To which is added SOME ACCOUNT OF PHALLIC... | |
 | Prince Ibrahim-Hilmy (son of Ismail, Khedive of Egypt) - 1887 - 472 pages
...Worship of Priapus. Being an account of the Fête of St. Cosmo and Damiano, celebrated at Isernia. In a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. By Sir William Hamilton, Minister at the Court of Naples. To which is added, Some Account of Phallic... | |
 | George William Ross - 1896 - 232 pages
...his arrival in Ontario, Lieutenant-Governor Simcoe, the first Lieutenant-Governor of the Province, in a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, said : " I should be glad to lay the foundation stone of some society that might hereafter conduce... | |
 | 1897 - 526 pages
...THE OTHER PRINICIPAL LANGUAGES OP THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO* MORE than a century ago, William Marsden, in a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London, set forth his views on the languages in use in the island of Sumatra, and called the attention of Orientalists... | |
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