[Miscellaneous astronomical pamphlets
Subtitle: Volume 2]
Series: Harvard astronomy preservation microfilm project -- 00171
Published: 1794
Language: eng
Number of pages: 13
Subjects: Astronomy; Early works to 1800; Planets; Observations; Comets
Other titles: Binder's title: Miscellaneous papers; Account of some particulars observed during the late eclipse of the sun.; On the rotation of the planet Saturn upon its axis.; On the nature and construction of the sun and fixed stars.; Description of a forty-feet reflecting telescope.; Abstract of a register of the barometer, thermometer, and rain, at Lyndon, in Rutland, 1794.; Account of the discovery of a new comet.; Additional observations on the comet.; On the periodical star [alpha] Herculis : with remarks tending to establish the rotatory motion of the stars on their axes ; to which is added a second catalogue of the comparative brightness of the stars.; Third catalogue of the comparative brightness of the stars : with an introductory account of an index to Mr. Flamsteed's Observations of the fixed stars ...; On the discovery of four additional satellites of the Georgium Sidus : the retrograde motion of its old satellites announced ; and the cause of their disappearance at certain distances from the planet explained.; Inquiry concerning the source of the heat which is excited by friction.; Fourth catalogue of the comparative brightness of the stars.; On the power of penetrating into space by telescopes : with a comparative determination of the extent of that power in natural vision, and in telescopes of various sizes and constructions.
Notes: Collection of off-prints from Philosophical transactions issued by the Royal Astronomical Society (London) in 1794-1799.