Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

Experimental researches in electricity

Michael Faraday · 1837 · 483 citations

Natural Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Physics +8

On the nature of the function expressive of the law of human mortality, and on a new mode of determining the value of life contingencies. In a letter to Francis Baily, Esq. F. R. S. &c. By Benjamin Gompertz, Esq. F. R. S

B. P. Gompertz · 1833 · 203 citations

Social Sciences, Mathematics, Aging +16

Contributions to the physiology of vision.— <i>Part the first</i> . On some remarkable and hitherto unobserved phenomena of binocular vision

Charles Wheatstone · 1843 · 192 citations

Medicine, Vision Science, Binocular Vision +10

Experiments on the refrangibility of the invisible rays of the sun

William Herschel · 1832 · 162 citations

Natural Sciences, Astronomy, Physics +7

Experiments on the quantity of gases absorbed by water, at different temperatures, and under different pressures

William Henry · 1832 · 125 citations

Natural Sciences, Physics, Atmospheric Science +7