MDDM Last Transit Ch. 74

[Dave Monroe]

A thousand pardons, begins at ...

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ilej/image1.pl?item=page&seq=1&size=1&id=pt.1770.x.x.60.x.454

The search engine works well enough if you know yr
author (e.g., Mason, Maskelyne) and maybe yr subject
and/or title.  Unfortunately, the ILEJ's freely
accessible "holdings" of the Phil. Trans. run only
from Vol. 50 (1757) to Vol. 67 (1777) (click "Browse
Journals") ...

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ilej/pbrowse.pl?item=title&id=ilej.4.&title=Philosophical+Transactions+of+the+Royal+Society

But if you have access to the Scholarly Journal
Archive (JSTOR) ...

http://www.jstor.org/

The Phil. Trans. from  Vol. 1 (1665) to the various
current series ca. 1997 is at yr fingertips ...

http://www.jstor.org/journals/03702316.html

And here's "our" (M&D's) period ...

http://www.jstor.org/journals/02607085.html

Otherwise, there's ...

http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/publica/

http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/phil_maths/phil_maths.html

For example ...

--- Steve Maas <tyronemullet at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I haven't seen any mention of the following, which
> is mostly numbers but with a few notes, available at
> the aforementioned Internet Library of Early 
> Journals:
> http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
> 
> "Astronomical Observations made at Cavan, near
> Strabane, in the County of Donegal, Ireland, by
> Appointment of the Royal Society, by Mr. Charles 
> Mason."  (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
> Society, Vol. 60, Dec. 1770, Pp. 454-96

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