Fused bones, waterspout and mathematical diagram
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1695
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The Royal Society, Publisher
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Four figures to issue 215 of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Fig. 1-2 Anatomical study of fused bones, including back and rib bones and thigh and leg bones fused at the knee. Illustrations to An extract of a letter from Bernard Connor, M.D. to Sir Charles Walgrave, published in French at Paris; giving an account of an extraordinary humane skeleton, whose vertebrae of the back, the ribs and several bones down to the os sacrum, were all firmly united into one solid bone without jointing or cartilage, published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.19, issue 215 (Feb 1695) pp.21-27.
Fig. 3 Landscape view showing a waterspout observed on the River Exe at Topsham on Tuesday 7 August 1694. Illustration to V. Mr. Zachary Mayne’s Letter, 1694. Concerning a spout of water that happened at Topsham on the river between the Sea and Exeter, published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.19, issue 215 (Feb 1695) pp.28-31.
Fig. 4 Mathematical figure to A Discourse concerning a Method of Discovering the true Moment of the Sun’s Ingress into the Tropical Signs. By E. Halley, published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.19, issue 215 (Feb 1695) pp.12-18.
Bernard Connor (1666-1698) Irish physician, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1695.
Edmond Halley (1656-1742), British astronomer, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1678.
Fig. 1-2 Anatomical study of fused bones, including back and rib bones and thigh and leg bones fused at the knee. Illustrations to An extract of a letter from Bernard Connor, M.D. to Sir Charles Walgrave, published in French at Paris; giving an account of an extraordinary humane skeleton, whose vertebrae of the back, the ribs and several bones down to the os sacrum, were all firmly united into one solid bone without jointing or cartilage, published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.19, issue 215 (Feb 1695) pp.21-27.
Fig. 3 Landscape view showing a waterspout observed on the River Exe at Topsham on Tuesday 7 August 1694. Illustration to V. Mr. Zachary Mayne’s Letter, 1694. Concerning a spout of water that happened at Topsham on the river between the Sea and Exeter, published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.19, issue 215 (Feb 1695) pp.28-31.
Fig. 4 Mathematical figure to A Discourse concerning a Method of Discovering the true Moment of the Sun’s Ingress into the Tropical Signs. By E. Halley, published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.19, issue 215 (Feb 1695) pp.12-18.
Bernard Connor (1666-1698) Irish physician, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1695.
Edmond Halley (1656-1742), British astronomer, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1678.
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