scholarly journals II. Astronomical observations by the missionaries at Pekin. Transmitted to the supra-cargoes at Canton, by the Rev. Father Louis Cipolla, of the tribunal of mathematics, and communicated to the Royal Society by the Court of Directors of the East-India Company

1774 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 31-45 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Astronomical Observations

scholarly journals XXI. On the Valley of the Setlej River, in the Himalaya Mountains, from the Journal of Captain A. Gerard

1827 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 343-380
Author(s):  
Henry Thomas Colebrooke
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
East India Company ◽  
General View ◽  
Geological Society ◽  
Asiatic Society ◽  
Short Narrative ◽  
The Himalaya ◽  
Royal Asiatic Society ◽  
Himalaya Mountains

Capt. A. Gerard, from whose letters on a survey of the middle valley of the Setlej, in the year 1818, a brief sketch of the geology of that part of the Himálaya was prepared, which has been inserted in the Geological Transactions (1st vol., New Series), has since continued to explore the same interesting portion of the great Indian chain of mountains. A short narrative of a visit to the same quarter, in 1820, was communicated to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and is published in the 10th volume of the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, (page 295.) In the subsequent, year (1821) Capt. A. Gerard, with his brother, Mr. J. G. Gerard, more fully explored the same valley, to complete a geographical survey of it. Their diary, and the geological specimens collected by them, have, at their request, been freely communicated to me by the East-India Company, with the liberal permission of retaining a duplicate set of the specimens. This I accordingly have had the satisfaction of presenting to the Geological Society. But, as the diary contains particulars unconnected with geology, yet not devoid of interest in a more general view, I now offer to the notice of the Royal Asiatic Society a summary of it, interspersed with remarks, and including extracts of the more important passages.

A Society against Ugliness

2020 ◽  
pp. 200-217
Author(s):  
Anton Howes
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Private Company ◽  
The World ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Great Exhibition

This chapter examines the Great Exhibition of 1851, which is considered an industrial audit of the world that included exhibits from Britain's empire and other foreign nations. It talks about the East India Company, a private company that exercised control over almost all of the Indian subcontinent that provided displays of the products of India in the Great Exhibition. It also explains the aim of the Great Exhibition, which was to reveal to merchants and manufacturers in Britain the kinds of raw materials that might be imported for Englishmen to work upon. The chapter highlights the Royal Society of Arts' activities over the previous century, which focused on the spread of information instead of awarding premiums for exploiting new resources. It describes how the products of Britain's colonies brought attention to merchants and manufacturers in Britain itself.

scholarly journals A letter from Captain C. M. Elliot, Madras Engineers, to Lieut,-Col. Sabine, For. Sec. R. S., transmitted through the court of directors of the East India company. Communicated by Lieut.-Col. Sabine

1851 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 908-910
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Magnetic Survey ◽  
John Herschel ◽  
The Way

Having undertaken the magnetic survey of the Indian Archipelago at the recommendation of the Royal Society, I think a slight sketch, detailed as briefly as possible, of my operations may not be uninteresting to Sir John Herschel and the Committee of Physics of which he is Chairman, prior to the publication of the Survey. I trust likewise I have acted strictly in accordance with the wishes of those who so kindly recommended me for the Survey, and I hope that my earnest efforts to do my duty will gain for me that approbation which I have under no ordinary difficulties incessantly striven to obtain. I will in the first place mention the different stations I visited, and then describe in a few words, the way in which the observations were taken.

scholarly journals Observing the skies of Lisbon. Isaac de Sequeira Samuda, an estrangeirado in the Royal Society

2014 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Costa Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
Scientific Instruments ◽  
Astronomical Observations ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Made In

Elected in 1723, Isaac de Sequeira Samuda (1681–1729) was the first Jewish Fellow of the Royal Society. He had arrived in London just a few years earlier, escaping from the Portuguese Inquisition. Despite his past, he had no difficulty in establishing links with his country's diplomatic representatives in London. A physician and adviser on scientific subjects, he became a conduit between the emerging world of Portuguese astronomy and the British scientific community. He reported to the Royal Society on astronomical observations made in the new observatories in Lisbon and helped with the acquisition of scientific instruments and books destined for Portugal. These activities were facets of Samuda's unusual career and the diverse though often converging associations that he established until his death. As the member of a network active in the diffusion of new ideas and in the modernization of Portuguese science, Samuda can be regarded as an estrangeirado , as this term has come to be used in the modern literature.

scholarly journals VIII. Astronomical observations. In two letters from M. Francis de Zach, Professor of Mathematics, and Member of the Royal Academies of Sciences at Marseilles, Dijon, and Lyons, to Mr. Tiberius Cavallo, F. R. S

1785 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 137-152
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Vernal Equinox ◽  
Astronomical Observations ◽  
Pendulum Clock ◽  
Jupiter’S Satellites

Sir, I send you the account of the observations on the eclipse of the moon, which I have made together with the rev. Father Le Fevre, Astronomer at Lyons, in the Observatory called au grand Collège ; to which I shall add the observations of the vernal equinox; some observation son Jupiter's satellites, made at Marseilles by M. Saint Jacques de Sylvabelle; and, lastly, a new solution of a problem that occurs in computing the orbits of comets. If you think that these observations do in any way deserve the notice of the Royal Society, I ascertain the going of the pendulum clock, I took several corresponding altitudes of the sun, which you will find in the following table.On the day of the eclipse the sky was very serene, nothing could be finer, and it continued so during the observation.

scholarly journals VII. Astronomical Observations made at Paramatta and Sydney

1826 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-116
Author(s):  
Thomas Brisbane ◽  
M. Rumker
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Astronomical Observations

My dear Sir,I request you will do me the favour of submitting to the Royal Society the accompanying observations made at Paramatta and Sydney. Those of the Comet, together with the elements inferred from them, are exclusively Mr Rumker's, to whom it is impossible for me to give adequate praise, either for zeal, assiduity, or intelligence. In order to have a better chance of observing the transit of Mercury over the Sun's disk, I proceeded to Sydney, about 15 miles from hence, and I am happy to say that we had a most propitious day throughout for the observations, and that the near agreement of them at both places tends to confirm their accuracy, as well as to increase their value.

scholarly journals XLI. Introduction to the following observations, made by Messieurs Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, for determining the length of a degree of latitude, in the provinces of Maryland and Pennsylvania, in North America; by the Reverend Nevil Maskelyne, B. D. F. R. S. Astronomer Royal

1768 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 270-273 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Astronomical Observations ◽  
Cape Of Good Hope ◽  
The Right ◽  
Nevil Maskelyne

Messieurs Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, who observed the last transit of Venus over the sun, at the Cape of Good Hope, under the direction of the Royal Society, had been since engaged, by the Right Honourable Lord Baltimore and the Honourable Mr. Penn, to settle the limits between the provinces of Maryland and Pennsylvania, in North America; which they performed partly by trigonometrical, and partly by astronomical observations.

scholarly journals On the observations of stars made in some British stone circles. —Second note

1906 ◽  
Vol 77 (519) ◽  
pp. 465-472 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Preliminary Note ◽  
Astronomical Observations ◽  
Ancient Monuments ◽  
Made In

In a preliminary note communicated to the Royal Society on March 15,1905, I stated that I was attempting to continue here the researches in temple orientation carried on by myself in Egypt in 1891, by Mr. Penrose in Greece in 1892, and by both of us at Stonehenge in 1901. I pointed out that from the observations I had made at the Hurlers and Stanton Drew, of which I gave an account, it seemed probable that the outstanding stones of our ancient monuments had been erected to assist astronomical observations.

scholarly journals Papers from the several magnetic observatories established in India, addressed to the Secretary of the Royal Society, by direction of the Honourable East India Company

1843 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 361-362
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Magnetic Observatory ◽  
Magnetic Observatories ◽  
Meteorological Instruments

1. The Magnetic Observatory at Singapore. Twenty-seven anemometer curves. Eight magnetic observations for February 1841. Anemometer curves for March, April and May 1841. Magnetic observations made on the term-days in November and December 1840, and January 1841, with an abstract of the magnetic and meteorological instruments, from the commencement of December 1840 to the end of January 1841. Daily curves of certain magnetic instruments

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