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Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan
Éloge de M. Halley
Eugene Fairfield MacPike (ed.)
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History of Science Society Publications: New Series, Vol. 2: Correspondence and Papers of Edmond Halley
Contents
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Front Matter
Note
Frontispiece
Preface
List of Illustrations
The Portraits of Halley
Memoir of Dr. Edmond Halley
Éloge de M. Halley
Chronological Lists of Halley's Correspondence
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Letters
1. To Flamsteed. 1674/5
2. To Sir J. Moore (?). 1677
3. To Hevelius. 1678
4. To Flamsteed
5. To Hevelius. 1679
6. To J. E. Olhoff. [Oct. 1679?]
7. To John Aubrey. 1679
8. To Hooke
9. To Hooke. 1681
10. To Hevelius. 1681
11. To Hevelius. 1682
12. 'To Cassini'. 1685
13. To Leeuwenhoek. 1685/6
14. To Molyneux. 1686
15. To Ashe. 1686
16. 'To a Certain Nobleman at Vienna'. 1686
17. To Molyneux. 1686
18. To Leeuwenhoek. 1686
19. To Wallis
20. To Caswell
21. To Reiselius. 1686
22. To Wallis
23. To Hevelius. 1686
24. To Wallis
25. To Wallis
26. To Wallis
27. To Wallis
28. To Hayley. 1686
29. To Wallis. 1687
30. To King James II. 1687
31. To Valvasor. 1687/8
32. To Abraham Hill. 1691
33. To Neumann. 1693
34. To Sloane. 1694
35. To Sharp. 1694/5
36. To Newton. 1695
37. To Newton. 1695
38. To Newton. 1695
39. To Newton. 1695
40. To Newton. 1695
41. To Newton. 1696 (?)
42. To Sloane. 1696
43. To Sloane. 1696
44. To Sloane. 1696
45. To Sloane. 1696
46. To Sloane
47. To Sloane. 1697
48. To J. Burchett. 1698
49. To Burchett. 1698
50. To Burchett. 1698
51. To Burchett. 1698
52. To Burchett. 1699
53. To Burchett. 1699
54. To Burchett. 1699
55. To Burchett. 1699
56. To Burchett. 1699
57. To Burchett. 1699
58. To Burchett. 1699
59. To Burchett. 1699
60. To Burchett. 1699
61. To Burchett. 1699
62. To Burchett. 1699
63. To Burchett. 1699
64. To Burchett. 1699
65. To Burchett. 1700
66. To Burchett. 1700
67. To Burchett. 1700
68. To Burchett. 1700
69. To Burchett
70. To Sloane. 1700
71. To Burchett. 1701
72. To Burchett. 1701
73. To Burchett. 1701
74. To Burchett. 1701
75. To Burchett. 1701
76. To Burchett. 1701
77. To Burchett. 1701
78. To Burchett. 1701
79. To Burchett. 1701
80. To Burchett. 1701
81. To Burchett. 1701
82. To Southwell. 1701/2
83. [To Burchett.] 1701/2
84. To Sharp. 1705
85. To Charlett. 1705
86. To Hudson. 1705/6
87. To (?) Gale. 1708/9
88. To Sloane. 1710
89. To Flamsteed. 1711
90. To Sloane. ? ca. 1712
91. To Keill. 1715
92. To Flamsteed. 1716
93. To Pound. 1716
94. To Anstis. 1721
95. To Sloane. 1722
96. To Sloane. 1722
97. To Newton. 1724/5
98. To Newton
99. To Sloane. 1727
100. To Sloane. 1729
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Unprinted Papers
1. A Paper, concerning Trying the Force of ye Magnet at Several Distances
2. An Experiment, of the Force of the Magnetic Needle, and its Variation
3. An Experiment of the Influence of the Air in Kindling of Phosphorus
4. A Thermometer in which the Degree of Heat may be Measured by the Amount of Vapour given off by a Liquid
5. Experiment of the Expansions of Liquors by Heat
6. A New Thermometer and the Rarifaction of Liquors
7. A Discourse tending to Explicate the Modus of the rising of Vapours out of Water
8. Concerning the Construction of the Thermometer, shewing the Degrees of Heat and Cold by the Dilatation and Contraction of the Air
9. A Method of Walking under Water
10. Of Refractions
11. On the Height and Velocity of Bullets and of Spirting Waters in 'Jects d'Eau'
12. Of the hight of fountains
13. A Relation of the Diving Bell
14. Of Conveying Air into the Diving Bell
15. Of Sound under Water
16. Of Working under Water in the Diving Bell
17. An Account of Two Instruments
18. An Attempt to Measure the Strength or Force of Running Water
19. The Manner of Computing the Weight or Force of the Winds
20. A Way of Estimating the Necessary Swiftness of the Wings of Birds to Sustain their Weight in the Air
21. An Instrument for Measuring the Way of a Ship
22. Of the Rate of Flow of Water from Vessels
23. Of an Instrument for Observing at Sea
24. A Description of an Instrument to Observe the Celestial Motions &c., by reflexion, thro' a Telescope, without elevating the Telescope towards the Object
25. A Method of Enabling a Ship to Carry its Guns in Bad Weather
26. Concerning the Evacuating Water by Pressure
27. The Geography of the Ancients and Moderns
28. Certificate concerning Signr Alberghetti's Tables for shooting Bombs
29. Of protecting the drum of the ear under water
30. A Prism to transmitt only the Red Light
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End Matter
Appendix: Halleiana
Appendix I: Halley's Ancestry
Appendix II: Extracts from India Office Records (1676–78
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Appendix III: Extracts from the unprinted MS. Diaries of Robert Hooke
Extracts from the Unprinted MS. Diaries of Robert Hooke
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Appendix IV: Selected letters from the correspondence of Hevelius, Newton and Others
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Selected Letters from the Correspondence of Hevelius, Newton, and Others
1. Croune to Hevelius
2. Hevelius to Croune
3. Hevelius to Grew
4. Hevelius to Cluver
5. Hevelius to Cluver
6. Flamsteed to Hevelius
7. Hevelius to Halley
8. Hevelius to Halley
9. Hevelius to Halley
10. Hevelius to Aston
11. Newton to Halley
12. Newton to Halley
13. Newton to Halley
14. Leibniz to Halley
15. Leibniz to Halley
16. Jean Bernoulli to Halley
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Appendix V
Halley's Verses Prefixed to the Principia
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Appendix VI: English Versification of Halley's Latin Hexameters
An Elogy on Sir Isaac Newton, translated from the Latin of Dr. Halley
Appendix VII: Presentation of the 'Principia' to King James II
Appendix VIII: Extracts referring to Halley from the journal books of the Royal Society
Appendix IX: Extracts referring to Halley from the council minutes of the Royal Society
Appendix X: Halley at the Mint, at Chester
Appendix XI: The Admiralty's instructions to Halley
Appendix XII: Halley's two voyages, 1698–1700
Appendix XIII: Halley's two missions to Vienna
Appendix XIV: An Account of Halley's Inaugural Address as Savilian Professor of Geometry, at Oxford
Appendix XV: Origin of the Royal Society Club
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Appendix XVI: Halley's will, with comments
Halley's Will, with Comments
Appendix XVII: Instructions on Halley's tomb at Lee
Appendix XVIII: Halley's character and personality
Appendix XIX: List of Halley's unpublished writings, arranged chronologically
Appendix XX: Grouped references for Halley's life and work
Appendix XXI
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