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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.
Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742.Date: 1708- Books
An estimate of the degrees of the mortality of mankind : drawn from curious tables of the births and funerals at the city of Breslaw; with an attempt to ascertain the price of annuities upon lives / By E. Halley.
Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742.Date: 1708- Books
A theory of the variation of the magnetical compass / By Ed. Halley.
Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742.Date: 1708- Books
A discourse concerning the action of the sun and moon on animal bodies; and the influence which this may have in many diseases / By Richard Mead.
Mead, Richard, 1673-1754.Date: 1708- Books
Concerning the distance of the fix'd stars / By Francis Roberts.
Roberts, Francis.Date: 1708- Books
The famous Isaac Newton's theory of the moon.
Date: 1708- Books
A discourse concerning some influence of respiration on the motion of the heart, hitherto unobserved / By J. Drake.
Drake, James, 1667-1707.Date: 1708- Books
An analytical resolution of certain equations of the third, fifth, seventh, ninth powers, and so on ad infinitum, in finite terms, after the manner of Cardan's rules for cubicks / by A. Moivre, Transact. No. 309.
Moivre, Abraham de, 1667-1754.Date: 1708- Books
A short discourse concerning concoction / Read at a meeting of the Royal Society, May ... 1699, by Clopton Havers.
Havers, Clopton, -1702.Date: 1708- Books
A letter of Isaac Newton containing his new theory about light and colours : sent by the author to the publisher from Cambridge, Feb. 6 1671/2; in order to be communicated to the Royal Society.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.Date: 1708- Books
A demonstration concerning the motion of light, communicated from Paris.
Date: 1708- Books
Some thoughts and experiments concerning vegetation / By John Woodward.
Woodward, John, 1665-1728.Date: 1708- Books
An account of the several species of infinite quantity, and of the proportions they bear one to the other; as it was read before the Royal Society / by E. Halley.
Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742.Date: 1708- Books
The true theory of the tides, extracted from that admired treatise of Isaac Newton, intitled, Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica : being a discourse presented with that book to the late King James / by Edmund Halley.
Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742.Date: 1708- Books
An account of the measure of the thickness of gold upon gilt wire; together with demonstration of the exceeding minuteness of the atoms or constituent parts of gold : as it was read before the Royal Society / by E. Halley.
Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742.Date: 1708- Books
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.
Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742.Date: 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.
Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742.Date: 1708- Books
Some account of the ancient state of the city of Palmyra, with short remarks upon the inscriptions found there / By E. Halley.
Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742.Date: 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.
Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742.Date: 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.
Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742.Date: 1708- 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.
Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742.Date: 1708- Books
A discourse concerning the modern theory of generation / by George Garden of Aberdeen, being part of a letter to William Musgrave, and by him communicated to the Royal Society.
Garden, George, 1649-1733.Date: 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.
Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742.Date: 1708- Books
A discourse concerning the measure of the airs [sic] resistance to bodies moved in it / By the learned John Wallis.
Wallis, John, 1616-1703.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.
Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742.Date: 1708