Samuel Horsley
1733 - 1806
- Born
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15 September 1733
St Martin's Place, by St Martin's-in-the-Fields, London, England
- Died
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04 October 1806
Brighton, Sussex
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 09/04/1767
- Occupation
- Clergyman, church of england
- Relationships
- Son of John Horsley, clerk, of St Martin's, Westminster. Married: 1) Mary, daughter of John Botham, his predecessor at Albury (1774); 2) Sarah Wright
- Catalogue
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- Wikipedia
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Author of
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Paper, 'Distance of the sun from the earth' by Samuel Horsley
Creator: Samuel Horsley Reference number: L&P/4/378 -
Paper, 'The height of the Sun's atmosphere calculated from the height of the Sun's spots' by Samuel Horsley
Creator: Samuel Horsley Reference number: L&P/4/407 -
Letter, 'Of the computation of the Sun's distance from the earth by the theory of gravity' from Samuel Horsley to Matthew Maty
Creator: Samuel Horsley Reference number: L&P/5/100 -
Paper, 'Of the late transit of Venus' by Samuel Horsley
Creator: Samuel Horsley Reference number: L&P/5/112 -
Paper, 'Consideration of difficulties in the Newtonian theory of light' by Samuel Horsley
Creator: Samuel Horsley Reference number: L&P/5/197 -
Paper, 'Problems of a crust of spherical particles covering a surface' by Samuel Horsley
Creator: Samuel Horsley Reference number: L&P/5/260
Recipient of
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Letter, 'Observations on the Chester bills of mortality for 1772' from John Haygarth to Samuel Horsley
Creator: John Haygarth Reference number: L&P/6/4 -
Letter, 'Population in Manchester and adjacent places' from Thomas Percival to Samuel Horsley
Creator: Thomas Percival Reference number: L&P/6/5 -
Letter, 'Further proofs of insalubrity or marshy places' from Richard Price to Samuel Horsley
Creator: Richard Price Reference number: L&P/6/14 -
Letter, 'Of the Gillaroo trout' from Daines Barrington to Samuel Horsley
Creator: Daines Barrington Reference number: L&P/6/23 -
Letter, 'Description of a cavern near Plymouth' from John Corham Huxham to Samuel Horsley
Creator: John Corham Huxham Reference number: L&P/6/51 -
Letter, 'Of ink' from Edward Bancroft to Samuel Horsley
Creator: Edward Bancroft Reference number: L&P/6/61