Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1845-06-12
IN PRESS
POPULAR LECTURES
ON
SCIENCE AND ART;
DELIVERED IN THE
Chief Cities and Tsxyns IL, tho n 6
BY DIONYSJJ1S JAPDNEp

DELlN Erred IN THE
Chief Cities and T.wns in, the U. 8,
BY DlONYSlUS LARDNER.
and Eoa S Gv Law Fellow Of the Royal Societies Londor
and Dublin and formerly Professor of Natural PHI
iosophy ana Astronomy in the University of
London &c. &c.
The publishers announce that DIR. LarJner hav.
! ihg Drought TO close his public Lectures in this
country, they have avaied themselves of The ON.
Portunlty thus presented to induce him to prepare
LOT puollcatlon complete and authentic edition OF
'hese DlScourses. The general interest which for
'ne iast our years they have excited in eyery part
Oh ttlS country Is universally felt and acknowl.
edged. Probably no public lecturer ever contin-
ued ior the same length of time to collect around
nm so numerous audiences Nor has there been
any exception to this favorable impression. Visit
alter visit has been made to all the chief cities.
and on every succeeding occasion audiences a.
mounting to thousands have assembled to hear
again and again these lessons Of useful knowledge.
lhe same simplicity Of language, perspicuity of
reasoning, and felicity of illustration, which rem
Gered the oral discourses so universally accepta-
oie VIII be preserved in the published report which
will indeed be, as nearly as possible identical with
the Lectures as they were delivered
The publishers feel that in the volume now pro-
posed they will present TO the American public a
most agreeable offering, and an interesting and
useful miscellany of general information, which
will also afford that large class of DC ersons who
have attended the Lectures, an agreeable means
OF revlvlng the impressions from which they have
already derived SO much profit and pleasure
he subjects which will be included will en-
brace variety of topics in the Astronomical and
Physical Sciences, and in their application to the
arts OF life. Among these the following may be
mentioned:
The Plurality of Worlds; The Sun; The Moon /;
The Planets; The Comets: The Solar SYSTEM
The Atmosphere; Popular Fallacies; Artificial H.
lumination Light; Sound; Eectrcty Gavanism
The Bridge Water Lecture; Lunar Influences ;
Weather Almanacs; Babbage's Calculating Ma
chnery; Electric and Magnetic Telegraphs; The
Telescope and Microscope; Calico; Copernicus;
Lavoiser; Newton; The Stellar Universe; The
Power of Steam; Steam Navigation Aurora Bore
alis; Water Spouls; Thunder and lightning; The
ory Of Dew; Heat; The Barometer; The Thermom-
eter; &c &c.
The work will appear in numbers, or parts, will
be well printed on good type, and copiousy illus
trated with engravingS on wood. 1t will be COM
pleted in ten or twelve numbers, and the entire
volume will be published within six months. The
price will be 25 cents for each number
Any person wishing to procure this valuable
work may apply to our agents, or to any of the
Booksellers or Country Merchants in any part of
the United States. Postmasters renting one
dollar will be entitled TO five numbers Orders
are respectfully solicited.
GREELY & McELRATH,
Tribune Buildings,