Contents
Contents
- Close section Front Matter
- Memoir of Dr. Edmond Halley
- Éloge de M. Halley
- Chronological Lists of Halley's Correspondence
- Close sectionLetters
- 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
- Close sectionUnprinted 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
- Close section
End Matter
- Appendix: Halleiana
- Appendix I: Halley's Ancestry
- Appendix II: Extracts from India Office Records (1676–78
- Close sectionAppendix III: Extracts from the unprinted MS. Diaries of Robert Hooke
- Close sectionAppendix IV: Selected letters from the correspondence of Hevelius, Newton and Others
- Close sectionSelected 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
- Close sectionSelected Letters from the Correspondence of Hevelius, Newton, and Others
- Close sectionAppendix V
- Close sectionAppendix VI: English Versification of Halley's Latin Hexameters
- 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
- Close sectionAppendix XVI: 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
- Index
