A system of experimental philosophy, [electronic resource] : prov'd by mechanicks. Wherein the princ...
A system of experimental philosophy, [electronic resource] : 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.
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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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[20],201,[5]p.,10plates : ill. ; 4°.
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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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[1719]
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A system of experimental philosophy, [electronic resource] : 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 differ...
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A reissue, with a preface, errata leaf and two final advertisement leaves and with the dedication reset.
Edited by Paul Dawson.
Price from imprint: Price Five Shillings.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Sig b under the gap after "PAUL".
The titlepage and [a2] are conjugate.
With two final advertisement leaves.
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Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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