Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1845-05-01
IN PRESS
POPULAR LECTURES
ON
SCIENCE AND ART;
DELIVERED IN THE
Chief Cities and Towns i'm the u. 8.
BY DIONVSJIIS IADnNCp

DELIVERED IN THE
Chief Cities and Towns i'm the U. S.
BY DlONYSIUS LARDNER.
Doctor Civil Law Fellow of the Rova Of
and Edinourgh Member of the Universities of Cambridge
and Dublin, and formerly Professor of Natural Phi
losophy ana Astronomy in the University of
London, &c. &C.
The publishers announce that Dr. Iardner hav-
ing brought TO a close his public Lectures in this
country, they have availed themselves of the op.
Portunlty thus presented to induce him to prepare
ior publication complete and authentic edition oil
these Discourses. The general interest which for
the last four years they have excited in eyery par,
OF this country is universally felt and acknowl.
edged Probably no public lecturer ever contin-
ued tor the same length of time to collect around
nun so numerous audiences. Nor has there been
any exception TO this favorable impression. Visit
after visit has been made to all the chief cities.
and or every succeeding occasion audiences a.
mounting TO thousands have assembled to hear
again and again these lessons of useful knowledge
The same simplicity of language, perspicuity of
reasoning, and felicity of illustration, which rem
Gered the oral discourses so universally accepta-
be will 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
viii also afford that large class of persons who
have attended the Lectures, an agreeable means
OF revivng the impressions from which they have
already derived SO much profit and pleasure
The 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 Falacies; Artificial H.
Light; Sound; Electricity; Galvanism;
The Bridge Water Lecture Lunar Influences !;
Weather Almanacs; Babbage's Calculating Ma
chinery; Electric and Magnetic Telegraphs; The
Telescope and Microscope; Calico; Copernicus;
Lavoisier; Newton; The Stellar Universe: The
Power of Steam; Steam Navigation; Aurora Bore
ais; Water Spouts; 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 engravlngS 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 remtting one
dollar will be entitled to five numbers. Orders
are respectfully solicited
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