John Michell - Some of Michell's Contributions

Some of Michell's Contributions

• Observations On the Comet of January 1760 at Cambridge, Philosophical Transactions (1760)
• Conjectures Concerning the Cause and Observations upon the Phaenomena of Earthquakes, ibid. (1760)
• A Recommendation of Hadley's Quadrant for Surveying, ibid. (1765)
• Proposal of a Method for measuring Degrees of Longitude upon Parallels of the Equator, ibid. (1766)
• An Inquiry into the Probable Parallax and Magnitude of the Fixed Stars, ibid. (1767)
• On the Twinkling of the Fixed Stars, ibid. (1767)
• Michell, John (1784), "On the Means of Discovering the Distance, Magnitude, &c. of the Fixed Stars, in Consequence of the Diminution of the Velocity of Their Light, in Case Such a Diminution Should be Found to Take Place in any of Them, and Such Other Data Should be Procured from Observations, as Would be Farther Necessary for That Purpose. By the Rev. John Michell, B. D. F. R. S. In a Letter to Henry Cavendish, Esq. F. R. S. and A. S.", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (The Royal Society) 74: 35–57, ISSN 0080-4614, http://www.jstor.org/stable/106576