Reference number | Title | Date |
RBO/21/13 | 'The Improvement of the Sand-Glass for the True measuring of Time, in order to find the Longitude' by John Morgan and James Short | 1737 |
EC/1736/14 | Short, James: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 24 March 1737 |
MM/10/146 | Receipt from James Short for instruments handed over by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to the Royal Society | 16 May 1762 |
IM/004161 | Short, James | nd |
L&P/2/246 | Paper, 'Eclipse of the Moon on 21 Nov 1751' by James Short | 1751 |
L&P/3/168 | Letter, 'An account of Dr Wark's paper on improving refracting telescopes, which had been referred him' from James Short to Thomas Birch | 20 May 1756 |
L&P/2/4/1 | Letter, 'Of an equatorial telescope' from James Short to Martin Folkes | 7 December 1749 |
L&P/2/421 | Letter, 'Of an improvement in refracting telescopes' from John Dolland to James Short | 21 February 1753 |
L&P/1/218 | Paper, 'Eclipse of the Moon on 22 October 1743' by James Short | 1743 |
L&P/1/216 | Paper, 'The transit of Mercury over the Sun on 25 October 1743, observed at MR G Graham's house in Fleet Street' by James Short | 1743 |
L&P/2/12 | Letter, 'On the diameter of the Moon' from James Short to Martin Folkes | 21 December 1749 |
L&P/2/5 | Paper, 'The eclipse of the moon on 11-12 Dec 1749' by John Bevis and James Short | 1749 |
L&P/2/533 | Paper, 'An account of Jean Jacques Megard's two memoirs sent to the Royal Society on a telescope and on a microscope' by James Short | 1754 |
L&P/1/320 | Letter, 'Astronomical observations in Jamaica' from James Short to Martin Folkes | 25 November 1744 |
L&P/2/192 | Paper, 'Remarkable appearance of the lunar spot Plato' by James Short | 22 April 1751 |
L&P/2/290 | Letter, 'Of his method of working specula for reflecting and refracting telescopes' from James Short to Mr Daval | 30 April 1752 |
L&P/2/437 | Letter, 'A mistake in Euler's theorum for correcting aberration in object-glasses for refracting telescopes' from John Dolland to JamesShort | 1753 |
L&P/2/375 | Letter, 'Of object-glassed for telescopes' from Leonhard Euler to James Short | 19 June 1752 |
L&P/2/323 | Letter, 'The making of objective glasses for refracting telescopes' from James Short to Peter Duvell | 20 November 1752 |
L&P/2/258 | Paper, 'Of Serson's horizontal top' by James Short | 6 February 1752 |
L&P/2/308 | Letter, 'Of electricity from the clouds' from Pierre Charles Le Monnier to James Short | 14 June 1752 |
L&P/2/319 | Letter, 'Of the invention of the compensating pendulum' from James Short to R Davell | 1752 |
L&P/2/451 | Paper, 'An account of Savery's paper' by James Short | 1753 |
L&P/2/330 | Letter, 'On varied refrangibility and on telescopic object-glasses' from James Short and John Dollond | 9 April 1752 |
L&P/2/366 | Paper, 'Account of Melvill's views of the cause of the different refrangibility of the rays of light' by James Short | 1753 |
L&P/2/347 | Paper, 'On the transit of Mercury 8 May 1753' by James Short | 1753 |
L&P/2/346 | Letter, 'Of Gascoigne's invention of the micrometer' from John Bevis to James Short | 10 May 1753 |
L&P/2/485 | Paper, 'On John Chevalier's astronomical observations at Lisbon 1753' by James Short | 1754 |
L&P/2/382 | Paper, 'Astronomical observations - eclipses and occultations in 1753' by John Bevis and James Short | 1753 |
L&P/2/461 | Paper, 'Of the last transit of Mercury over the Sun; account of Barro's memoir read to the Paris Academy' by James Short | 1753 |
L&P/3/117 | Letter, 'Of a meteoric shower of stones on 3 July 1753, near the village of Strkow' from Joseph Stepling to James Short | 15 April 1755 |
L&P/4/30 | Paper, 'Of the eclipse of the Moon of 22 Nov 1780' by James Short | 1760 |
L&P/5/1 | Letters, 'The approaching transit of Venus (includes copy of letter from the Empress Catherine to Count Orlow from Moscow)' from James Short to Matthew Maty | 14 January 1768 |
L&P/5/9 | Paper, 'A note concerning the the cold of 1740 and of this year' by James Short and John Bevis | 3 February 1768 |
L&P/5/147 | Paper, 'Of a method of working the object-glasses of refracting telescopes' by James Short | 1769 |
L&P/2/4 | Paper, 'Of an equatorial telescope' by James Short | 7 December 1749 |
L&P/2/449 | Letter, 'Concerning a paper by Servington Savery as to his invention of a new micrometer' from James Short to George Parker | 10 May 1753 |
CLP/8ii/50 | Paper, 'An observation of an eclipse of the Moon, made in Fleet Street London' by George Graham and James Short | 1736 |
MOB/027 | Reflecting telescope by James Short | 1750s |
IM/004160 | Short, James | nd |
L&P/2/397 | Paper, 'Account of an essay, 'Disquisitio mathematica in causam physicam figurae et magntiudinis telluris nostrae' [Mathematics inquiry into the physical shape of our planet and magnitudes] by Paolo Frisi' by James Short | 1753 |
AB/1/2/1/51 | Mr [James] Short's Account | 3 June 1761 |
L&P/2/173 | Paper, 'The eclipse of the Moon of June 8 1750' by James Short and John Catlin | 1750 |
L&P/2/492 | Letter, 'A further explanation of a new instrument for measuing small angles' from John Dolland to James Short | 4 April 1754 |
L&P/3/115 | Letter, 'Of the change in the baths of Toplitz' from Joseph Stepling to James Short | 30 January 1756 |