A system of experimental philosophy : prov'd by mechanicks. Wherein the principles and laws of physicks, mechanicks, hydrostaticks, and opticks, are demonstrated and explained at large, by a great Number of curious Experiments: With a full Description of the Air-Pump, and the several Experiments thereon: As also of the different Species of Barometers, Thermometers, and Hydrometers; as shewn at the publick Lectures in a Course of Mechanical and Experimental Philosyphy. As performed by J. T. Desaguliers. M. A. F. R. S, Illustrated with several copper plates. To which is added, Sir Isaac Newton's colours: the description of the condensing engine, with its Apparatus: and Rowley's horary; a Machine representing the Motion of the Moon about the Earth; Venus and Mercury about the Sun, according to the Copernican system.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Desaguliers, J. T. (John Theophilus), 1683-1744.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physics--Early works to 1800.

Physics.

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages,201 pages, 5 unnumbered pages,plates : illustrations ; 4⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for B. Creake:, at the Bible and Ink-Bottle in Jermyn-Street, St. James's J. Sackfield, in Lincolns-Inn-Square: and sold by W. Mears, at the Lamb without Temple-Bar, 1719.

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Notes:

Edited by Paul Dawson.

With a final advertisement leaf.

Sig b under "A" of "PAUL".

The titlepage and final advertisement leaf are conjugate.

Price from imprint: Price Five Shillings.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T65011.

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