A system of mechanical philosophy /
Robison, John,1739-1805.
Brewster, David,1781-1868,ed.
Watt, James,1736-1819.
Edinburgh: : Printed for John Murray, London,
1822.
Compiled from the author's "Elements of mechanics", v. 1, 1804, with some manuscript intended to have formed part of a 2d vol. to the "Elements", and the greater part of the articles furnished by him to the "Encylopaedia britannica". cf. Allibone, Dict. of authors.
Vol. 2 has added title page: The articles Steam and Steam-engines, written for the Encyclopædia britannica by John Robison ... With notes and additions by James Watt ... And a letter on some properties of steam by the late John Southern, esq.
Mechanics.
Steam-engines.
Astronomy.
Physics.
Scotland Edinburgh.