Philosophical transactions for the month of December, 1728
Contributors: Desaguliers, J. T. (John Theophilus), 1683-1744; Rutty, William, 1687-1730; Bradley, James, 1693?-1762; Royal Society (Great Britain)
Publisher: Printed for W. Innys, Printer to the Royal Society ...
Published: 1803
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 661
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Stars; Tinplate; Optics; Motion in line of sight; Altitudes
Other titles: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.; Philosophical transactions, giving some account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours of the ingenious in considerable parts of the world : vol. XXV, for July, August, September, October, November and December 1727 and for the year 1728.
Notes: No. 406 from the Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society. It is preceded by the general t.p. and dedication for v. XXXV, and followed by errata and an index for the vol. as a whole ([5] p. at end).

Caption title. Imprint from t.p. for v. XXXV.

The plates illustrate Desaguliers' "Optical experiments."

Binding: modern marbled paper, half calfskin.
Table of contents: title: J.G. Scheuchzer.; title: Remarks on the height of mountains in general, and of those of Switzerland in particular, with an account of the rise of some of the most considerable rivers of Europe -- -- J.T. Desaguliers.; title: Optical experiments made in the beginning of August 1728, before the President and several members of the Royal Society, and other gentlemen of several nations, upon occasion of Signior Rizzetti's Opticks, and with an account of the said book -- -- William Rutty. -- The; title: method of making tin-plates, extracted from the memoirs of the Academy of Sciences, for the year 1725 -- -- James Bradley. -- A; title: letter from the Reverend Mr. James Bradley Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, and F.R.S. to Dr. Edmund Halley Astronom. Reg. &c. giving an account of a new discovered motion of the fixt stars.