ISBN: 1235655709

[EAN: 9781235655708], Neubuch, ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchas… Plus…

[EAN: 9781235655708], Neubuch, ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818. Excerpt: . . . Mons. Palisot de Beauvois presented the 9th livraison of the insects of Africa. Mons. Puissant presented extracts from the MS. of his second edition of the great work on geodesy. Dumeril read a report on Dr. Edvvardss memoir on the Asphyxie consideree dans les Batraciens. The commissaries approve it much, and engage the author to continue his inquiries on so important a subject. The same gentleman made a verbal report on Mons. Cloquets memoir on inguinal herniae. Latreille read a report on the insect sent from America to the Academy, through the Minister of the Interior. He found it to be a Cicada septemdecis. Adjourned. Art. X. Jin Essay on the Variations of the Compass, showing how far it is influenced by a change in the direction of the ships head, fyc. fyc. By William Bain, Master, Royal Navy. Edinburgh. 1 vol. 8vo. pp. 140. 1817. . A. LTHOUGH the attraction of the magnet and many of its leading properties, have been noticed, and admired from the remotest antiquity, yet little or nothing is known of the causes of its action, and how these may be influenced by particular circumstances. The importance of the directive influence of the magnet is however great beyond measure, particularly to a maritime nation, and if the various hypotheses and theories which have been formed by some of the most eminent philosophers, have failed to account for magnetic effects, or in reducing them to that system and order so essential to the perfection of any science, that failure must be attributed rather to the want of a sufficient number of well authenticated facts, upon which they could ground their reasoning, than to any defect or want of due consideration of the subject. The magnetic influence has long been known to have a variation which is constantly changing; bu. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<