Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1845-05-15
IN PRESS
POPULAR LECTURES
ON
SCIENCE ANEo ART;
DELIVERED IN THE
CHIEF Cities 3Isd Towns las Tire u. S.
RY DlOMVCIuS ,DnNH1o

BY DiONYSlUS LARDNER.
Doctor Of Civil Law Fellow Of the Royal Societies of London
and tdlnburgh Member of the Universities Cambridge
ana Dublin and formerly Professor of Natural PHI
fosophy and astronomy in the University of
London &c. &c.
The publishers announce that Dr. Iatdner hav-
ing brought TO close his public Lectures in this
country, they have avaed themselves of the op.
portunity thus presented to induce him to prepare
for publication complete and authentic edition of
these Discourses. The general interest which for
the last four years they have excited in every part
OF THIS country Is universally felt and acknowl
edged. Probably no public lecturer ever contin-
ued for the same length Of time to collect around
him 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 on 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, perspcuity of
reasoning, and felicity of illustration, which rem
Gered the oral discourses so universally accepta-
bic will be preserved in the published report which
will indeed be, nearly possible identical with
the Lectures 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 persons who
have attended the Lectures, an agreeable means
OF reviving the impressions from which they have
already derived SO much profit and pleasure.
The subjects which will be included will en-
brace a 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 Sum- The Neon
The Planets; The Comets; The Solar System
The Atmosphere; Popular Fallacies; Artificial IL
lumination; 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 aud lightning; The
ory Of Dew; Heat; The Barometer The Thernom-
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 o
the United States Postmasters renting one
dollar will be entitled to five numbers Orders
are respectfully solicited.
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Tribune Buildings.