The pleasing preceptor : or familiar instructions in natural history and physics, adapted to the capacities of youth, and Calculated Equally to Inform and Amuse their Minds During the Intervals of More Dry and Severe Study: taken chiefly from the German of Gerhard Ulrich Anthony Vieth, Mathematical Teacher at Dessaw; Intended for the Use of Schools, and Illustrated with Cuts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vieth, Gerhard Ulrich Anton, 1763-1836.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physics--Juvenile literature--Early works to 1800.

Physics.

Genre:

Juvenile literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2v. ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Pleasing preceptor

Place of Publication:

London : printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row by George Woodfall, Paternoster-Row, [1800]-01.

Notes:

Vol.1 is dated 1800.

The imprint to vol.2 reads: 'Printed for G. and J. Robinson, by G. Woodfall. 1801'.

Based on Vieth's 'Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre für Bürgerschulen' and 'Physikalischer Kinderfreund'.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T111992.

OCLC:

642279947