Author:Robert Hunt

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Robert Hunt (1807–1887)

sister projects: Wikipedia article. FRS (1854); Keeper of Mining Records, Museum of Practical Geology; Professor of mechanical science, School of Mines; photographer; chemist; scientific writer. This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, and the list on this page is complete to 1901. Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "R. H-t."

Robert Hunt

Works

• A Popular Treatise on the Art of Photography (1841)

revised and enlarged became volume 16 of Encyclopaedia Metropolitana (1851)

• Researches on Light (1844)
• Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and of the Museum of Economic Geology
• The Poetry of Science: Or, Studies of the Physical Phenomena of Nature (1849) [1]
• Panthea, the Spirit of Nature (1849)
• Elementary Physics (1851)
• Hunt's Hand-book to the Official Catalogues (1851) [2]
• Companion to the official catalogue (1851) [3]
• Manual of Photography (1852)
• (ed.) Ures Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines (1860)
• Popular Romances of the West of England (1865) [4]
• Geological Survey of Great Britain. Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1874) [5]
• British Mining (1884)

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

• “Coal as a Reservoir of Power,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 1, October 1872

Contributions to the DNB

• Beverley, Charles James
• Binney, Edward William
• Bishop, John (1797-1873)
• Boase, Henry Samuel
• Bowerbank, James Scott
• Brande, William Thomas
• Brewster, David
• Brodie, Benjamin Collins (1817-1880)
• Brown, Robert (1773-1858)
• Buckland, William
• Burnard, Nevill Northey
• Bury, Edward (1794-1858)
• Canton, John
• Carne, Joseph
• Catcott, Alexander (1725-1779)
• Catesby, Mark
• Cavallo, Tiberius
• Cavendish, Henry (1731-1810)
• Chenevix, Richard (1774-1830)
• Chevallier, Temple
• Clark, William Tierney
• Clarke, William Branwhite
• Clayton, John (1693-1773)
• Cochrane, Archibald
• Collinson, Peter
• Conybeare, John Josias
• Conybeare, William Daniel
• Cookworthy, William
• Cort, Henry
• Coventry, John (1735-1812)
• Crawford, Adair
• Crosse, Andrew
• Cumming, Joseph George
• Curtis, William (1746-1799)
• Daintree, Richard
• Dalzell, Nicol Alexander
• Davy, Edmund
• Davy, Humphry
• Davy, John (1790-1868)
• De La Rue, Thomas
• Dodd, George (1783-1827)
• Dodd, Ralph
• Dudley, Dud
• Edmonds, Richard
• Edwards, Edward (1803-1879)
• Elliotson, John
• Evans, Brooke

Works about Hunt

• Mr. Robert Hunt, F.R.S.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.