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1827.Hieroglyphical Fragments abstract Account afterwards Akerblad Algebraical Appendix application April Arago Archæologia Arteries Atmosphere Bakerian Lecture Baron William Bart Booksellers Brande's Phil Brande's Philosophical Journal British CATALOGUE Champollion Champollion's Cohesion of Fluids Colours Computation containing COURSE OF LECTURES Criticism Croonian Lecture Davy's discovery Earth Edinburgh EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES Egyptian Inscription elastic substance Elective Attractions Encyclopædia Britannica Essay Fortunam Gentleman's Magazine Græca Grammar Gravitation Greek Manuscript Grey's Hieroglyphical Fragments Hutton's Hydraulic Inscription of Rosetta INTERFERENCE OF LIGHT Journ labours LECTURES ON NATURAL Letter addressed LITERATURE London mathematical Medical Museum Criticum NATURAL PHILOSOPHY Nautical nearly resembling Nichol Nicholson Numbers Numerical Opercularia Optics Papyrus Philosophical Transactions plates printed Refraction relating Remarks respecting Sound Review Robison Royal Institution Royal Society second edition shewing Sound and Light subservient SYLLABUS Table Theorems Theory of Light Tides tion Trans Translation volume William Von Humboldt Young considered
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Էջ 61 - A finite and exact Expression for the Refraction of an Atmosphere nearly resembling that of the Earth. Phil. Trans. 1824, p. 159 ; a computation derived from an optical hypothesis not exactly agreeing with the probable height of the physical atmosphere, but affording correct
Էջ 54 - The mathematical reasoning, for want of mathematical symbols, was not understood, even by tolerable mathematicians ; from a dislike of the affectation of algebraical formality, which he had observed in some foreign authors, he was led into something like an affectation of simplicity, which was equally inconvenient to a scientific reader.
Էջ 60 - 8vo. London, 1821 ; with some additions relating to the motions of Waves, and of Sound, and to the cohesion of Fluids. (This volume, and the article " Tides," in the Supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Dr. Young considered as together containing the most fortunate of the results of his mathematical
Էջ 56 - Hospital. (Dr. Young remarks, that " they were little frequented, on account of the usual miscalculation of the Lecturer, who gave his audience more information in a given time, than it was in their power to follow.") 37. Computation of the Depression of Mercury in the Barometer. Nich. March 1809, p. 215.
Էջ 62 - Rudiments of an Egyptian Dictionary in the ancient Enchorial Character; containing all the Words of which the Sense has been ascertained. Intended as an Appendix to Mr. Tattam's Coptic Grammar.
Էջ 54 - 23. To an Imperial Review, which was an unsuccessful speculation of some booksellers in 1804, he contributed several medical and some other miscellaneous articles. The works that he reviewed were, Dumas Phisiologie, Darwin's Temple of Nature, Blackburn on Scarlet Fever, Percival's Medical Ethics, Fothergill's Tic Douloureux, Crichton's Table, Nisbet's Watering Places, Rowley on Madness,
Էջ 52 - of Essays on Grammar, Criticism, Geometry, Paintings, Manners, Riches, Exercises, Medicine, and Music; some of them reprinted afterwards. 11. 12. There is also an account of the French Calendar and Measures, and an Essay on the Morals of the Germans. 13. Experiments and Enquiries respecting Sound and Light. Philosophical Transactions, 1800, p. 106: the
Էջ 55 - 27. A Table of Chances, with remarks on Waves. Nicholson, Oct. 1807, p. 116. 28. A Theory of Covered Ways and Arches. Nicholson, Dec. 1807, p. 24. 29. Remarks on a Pamphlet of Professor Vince. Nicholson, April 1808, p. 304; pointing out the mathematical fallacy of the Professor's supposed refutation of the hypothesis of Newton respecting the cause of
Էջ 52 - afterwards found that his own eye lost almost the whole of its power of accommodation soon after fifty, remaining fixed at its greatest focal distance.") 15. A Letter respecting Sound and Light. Nicholson's Journal, August 1801, in answer to Professor Robison, of Edinburgh.
Էջ 52 - Experiments and Enquiries respecting Sound and Light. Philosophical Transactions, 1800, p. 106: the vibrations of the air observed by means of smoke ; those of strings counted, and their orbits observed with a microscope; their harmonics suppressed at pleasure. 14. A Bakerian Lecture on the Mechanism of the Eye. Philosophical Transactions, 1801, p. 23 : describing a new Optometer, and