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2 unusual facts about Philosophical Magazine


Agnes Ibbetson

Between 1809 and 1822 Mrs. Ibbetson contributed more than fifty papers to Nicholson's Journal and the Philosophical Magazine on the microscopic structure and physiology of plants, including such subjects as air-vessels, pollen, perspiration, sleep, winter-buds, grafting, impregnation, germination, and the Jussieuean method.

Thick-billed Parrot

The bird was first described by English naturalist and illustrator William John Swainson who designated it Macrocercus pachyrhynchus in Philosophical Magazine, new ser.


Bicomplex number

James Cockle introduced the tessarines in 1848 in a series of articles in Philosophical Magazine.

Farey sequence

Farey sequences are named after the British geologist John Farey, Sr., whose letter about these sequences was published in the Philosophical Magazine in 1816.


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