Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1818
Reference number: PT/12
Date: January 1817 - June 1818
Description
Unbound manuscript versions of papers published by the Royal Society in volume 108 of 'Philosophical Transactions' in 1818.
Includes some original illustrations and figures in various media (drawings, watercolours) in support of the papers.
- Reference number
- PT/12
- Earliest possible date
- January 1817 - June 1818
- Physical description
- Loose manuscript papers written in ink
- Page extent
- Two boxes containing 27 papers, one letter, and one list
- Format
- Manuscript
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1818, January 1817 - June 1818, PT/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_12/manuscripts-of-papers-published-in-philosophical-transactions-1818, accessed on 16 January 2026
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This volume contains 29 manuscripts:
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Paper, 'On the great strength given to ships of war by the application of diagonal braces' by Robert Seppings
1817 Creator: Robert Seppings Reference number: PT/12/1 -
Paper, 'A memoir on the geography of the north eastern part of Asia, and on the question whether Asia and America are contiguous or are separated by the sea' by Captain James Burney
1817 Creator: James Burney Reference number: PT/12/2 -
Paper, 'Additional facts respecting the fossil remains of an animal on which two papers have a place in the Phil [Philosophical] Trans [Transactions] shewing that the bones of the sternum resemble those of the ornithorhynchus paradoxus' by Sir Everard Home
1818 Creator: Everard Home Reference number: PT/12/3 -
Paper, 'Account of experiments for determining the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London' by Capt Henry Kater
01 July 1817 Creator: Henry Kater Reference number: PT/12/4
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The 'Philosophical Transactions' collection comprises manuscript versions of papers published in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world’s first and longest continuously running journal dedicated to science.
Dates: 1802 - 1865
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