A book dating from the time of the Commonwealth, The Vindication of CHRISTMAS or, His Twelve Yeares ' Observations upon the Times ( London, 1652 ), involved " Old Christmas " advocating a merry, alcoholic Christmas and casting aspersions on the charitable motives of the ruling Puritans.

* Observations about Halfbakery from a social perspective

In his Political Observations from April 20, 1795 Madison had stated:

His Surgical Observations on the Constitutional Origin and Treatment of Local Diseases ( 1809 ) — known as " My Book ", from the great frequency with which he referred his patients to it, and to page 72 of it in particular, under that name — was one of the earliest popular works on medical science.

Observations of Mercury's polar regions by radar from Earth and the on-going observations of the Messenger Probe have been consistent with water ice and / or other frozen volatiles being present in permanently shadowed areas of craters in Mercury's polar regions.

Observations from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in 1997 revealed an " elongated bright central region " that peaked at 9 ″ ( 70 AU ) to the northeast of Vega.

Observations in the wild indicate that the males among the related common chimpanzee communities are extraordinarily hostile to males from outside the community.

The word " bungee " originates from West Country dialect of English language, meaning " Anything thick and squat ", as defined by James Jennings in his book " Observations of Some of the Dialects in The West of England " published 1825.

He argued for an attracting principle of gravitation in Micrographia of 1665, in a 1666 Royal Society lecture " On gravity ", and again in 1674, when he published his ideas about the " System of the World " in somewhat developed form, as an addition to " An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth from Observations ".

Observations suggest significant variation in the jet angle from between 2 and 20 degrees.

Hooke published his ideas about the " System of the World " again in somewhat developed form in 1674, as an addition to " An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth from Observations ".

The names of all seven satellites of Saturn then known come from John Herschel ( son of William Herschel, discoverer of the planet Uranus, and two other Cronian moons, Mimas and Enceladus ) in his 1847 publication Results of Astronomical Observations made at the Cape of Good Hope, wherein he suggested the names of the Titans, sisters and brothers of Cronos ( Saturn, in Roman mythology ), be used.

He published in 1860, Results of the Magnetical, Nautical and Meteorological Observations from March 1858 to February 1859, and did a large amount of travelling in Victoria in connection with his magnetic survey of the colony.

Observations from the Earth's surface are limited to wavelengths that can pass through the atmosphere.

Observations from the Pensacola area continued intermittently over the next several decades.

Publications from New Harmony's press include William Maclure's Essay on the Formation of Rocks, or an Inquiry into the Probably Origin of their Present Form and Structure and Observations on the Geology of the West India Islands ; from Barbadoes to Santa Cruz, Inclusive, both published in 1832 ; Thomas Say's Description of New Species of North American Insects, and Observations on Some of the Species Already Described ; Descriptions of Some New Terrrestrial and Fluviatile Shells of North America ; and American Conchology, or Descriptions of the Shells of North America.

" ( Observations from a visiting Irish tourist, July 2006 )

Observations of comet C / 1999 S4 ( LINEAR ) with the Chandra satellite in 2000 determined that X-rays observed from that comet were produced predominantly by charge exchange collisions between highly charged carbon oxygen and nitrogen minor ions in the solar wind, and neutral water, oxygen and hydrogen in the comet's coma.

Observations of material being ejected from the nucleus allowed astronomers to establish its rotation period.

Observations of M100 from February 21, 1960 to June 17, 1960 led to the discovery of SN 1959E, another type I supernova, with the faintest magnitude, 17. 5, among the five found, at 58 " E and 21 " S from its nucleus.

Observations using the Spitzer Space Telescope indicate that extremely massive stars of spectral category O, which are much hotter than our Sun, produce a photo-evaporation effect that inhibits planetary formation.

Observations made by Chandra indicate the presence of loops and rings in the hot X-ray emitting gas that surrounds Messier 87.

) Observations by Eusebius and Georgius Syncellus can be taken to indicate that Bacchylides might have been still alive at the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, but modern scholars have differed widely in estimates of the year of his death – Jebb, for example sets it at 428 BC and yet a date around 451 BC is more favoured.

Observations during the breeding season indicate that members of this species prefer areas with an abundance of cottonwood, pecan, and ( if near water ) willow ( Jaramillo and Burke 1999 ; Rising and Williams 1999 ).

Observations on wild wolf hybrids in the former Soviet Union indicate that wolf hybrids in a wild state may form larger packs than pure wolves, and have greater endurance when chasing prey.

Observations of an occultation on October 14, 1999, using four well-placed chords, indicate an ellipsoid of 278 × 142 km and that 48 Doris is an extremely irregular shaped object.

Observations of an occultation using nine chords indicate an oval outline of 225 × 173 km.

* Observations in the stratosphere indicate that the total chlorine abundance is at or near a peak, while bromine abundances are probably still increasing.

Observations by the Japanese probe SELENE indicate the hole is about 90 meters deep, and the roof — the top part of the tube — is about 25 meters thick.

Observations indicate that its radius is about 50 % larger at the equator than at the poles.

Observations in the walls of the pit craters indicate that there have been several episodes of cone and pit crater formation.

Observations indicate its mass is about 0. 4 million solar masses, which means that Willman's 1 mass to light ratio is around 800.

Observations on very closely related species of the Pasteurellaceae family with different RTX toxins indicate that these latter contribute to a significant part to the host specificity of the pathogen itself.

Observations indicate that they are omnivorous, favouring commercial turtle food, aquatic plants and they have been observed hunting small fish and crustaceans.

In the same way he coupled Molesworth and Wharton in a letter to Archbishop King, and he had earlier described him as `` the worst of them '' in some `` Observations '' on the Irish Privy Council submitted to Oxford.

Observations of the radio emission of a planet which has an extensive atmosphere will probe the atmosphere to a greater extent than those using shorter wave lengths and should in some cases give otherwise unobtainable information about the characteristics of the solid surface.

Observations similar to these can be made at each point of Aj.

His 1665 New Experiments and Observations touching Cold, articulated the dispute known as the primum frigidum.

These include Metals and Materials ; the Secrets of Chemistry ; the Origin of Metals ; the Origins of Compounds, and a Concordance which is a collection of Observations on the philosopher's stone ; and other alchemy-chemistry topics, collected under the name of Theatrum Chemicum.

In 1835 the French Academy sent Antoine on a scientific mission to Brazil, the results being published at a later date ( 1873 ) under the title of Observations relatives à la physique du globe faites au Bresil et en Ethiopie.

* Observations relatives à la physique du globe, faites au Brésil et en Éthiopie.

Observations of such a star were made difficult by the limited field of view of Bradley and Molyneux's telescope, and the lack of suitable stars of sufficient brightness.

In his article Observations on the marital metaphor of YHWH and Israel in its ancient Israelite context: general considerations and particular images in Hosea 1. 2, Ben Zvi describes the role of the Gomer in the marriage metaphor as one of the “ central attributes of the ideological image of a human marriage that was shared by the male authorship and the primary and intended male readership as building blocks for their imagining of the relationship .”

Observations suggest that the universe began around 13. 7 billion years ago.

" Some Observations on the Censorship of Claudius and Vitellius, AD 47 – 48 ", American Journal of Philology, 114 ( 4 ): 611 – 618.

A collection of these essays, entitled Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography, was published by Penguin Press on September 1, 2011.

Containing His Voyages and Travels, With the most remarkable Occurrences respecting him and many other Continental Prisoners of Observations.

He continued to investigate natural history and in 1823, the last year of his life, he presented his Observations on the Migration of Birds to the Royal Society.

* 1799 Further Observations on the Variolæ Vaccinæ, or Cow-Pox.

Observations on the chronology of the Galenic Corpus.

Galen on Sense Perception, His Doctrines, Observations and Experiments on Vision, Hearing, Smell, Taste, Touch and Pain, and Their Historical Sources.

Observations of the Bullet Cluster are the strongest evidence for the existence of dark matter ; however, Brownstein and Moffat have shown that their modified gravity theory can also account for the properties of the cluster.

Observations of feral horses and barefoot domestic horses in natural boarding situations ( including being kept on roomy pasture, not in stalls ) have provided additional evidence that domesticated horses can grow hooves as healthy as those of feral horses and may not need shoes as often as many people think.

Observations on granite.