Heberden, Thomas (1703 - 1769)

He shared his brother's interests in various aspects of natural philosophy, communicating between a number of papers to the Royal Society between 1756 and 1769. He was elected a fellow of the Society in 1761.

Heberden's papers published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society include:

• An Account of the Earthquake felt in the Island of Madeira, Vol. 52 December 1761, pp. 155-6.
  
• Observations for settling the Proportion, which the Decrease of Heat bears to the Height of Situation, Vol. 55, December 1765, pp. 126-8.
  
• Of the Increase and Mortality of the Inhabitants of the Island of Madeira, vol. 59, December 1769, pp. 461-4.
  
• Observations of Immersions and Emersion of Jupiter's first Satellite, made at Funchal, in Madeira, in Madeira'., Vol. 60, December 1770, pp. 502-3.

Copies of these papers are available on-line through the Internet Library of Early Journals.

• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1757-1777, Internet Library of Early Journals, Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/. [ Details ]