Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1845-11-20
IN PRESS
POPULAR LECTURES
ON
SCIENCE AND ART;
DELIVERED IN THE
Chief Cities and Towns in the u. q.
DIV nInNVSIuS IApD.NEll

BY D1ONYSIUS LARDNER.
Doctor Law Fellow Royal ocees of Londo
and Edinburgh Member of the Unlvers ties Cambridge
and Dublin, and formerly Proessof of Natural Phi
losophy and Astronomy i'll the University of
London, DC. Sc.
The publishers announce FIAT Dr. Lardner hay-
ing brought to a close his Public Lectures in this
country, they have availed. 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 sue ceeding occasion audiences "a
mounting to thousands have assembled TO hear
again and again these lessons of useful knowledge
The same simplicity of language, perspicuiiy of
reasoning, and felicity Of illustration, which rem.
Gered the oral discourses so universally accepta-
BILE will be preserved in the published report, which
will indeed be, nearly 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
most agreeable Offering, and an interesting and
useful miscellany of general information, which
will also afford tFat large class of persons who
have attended TIE Lectures, an agreeable means
oi reviving 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 Sum- The Moon
The Planets The Comets: The Solar System;
The Atmosphere; Popular Fallacies; Artificial IL
Elimination; Light Sound; Electricity; Galvans N:
The Bridge Water Lecture; Lunar Infiuep .ces |:
Weather Almanacs; Babbage's Calcuiatir. o Ma
chinery Electric and Magnetic Tee. rapns. The
Telescope and Microscope; Galileo; C. jper,eicps;
Layoisier; Newton; The Stellar Uni ,erse. The
Power of Steam; Steain Navigation; Aurora Bore
alis; Water Spouts; Thunder ard Lightning; The
ory of Dew; Heat; The Barometer; The Thermoni-
eter; &c &c.
| The work will appear in numbers, or parts, will
be well printed on good type, and eopiously Illus
trated with engravines on wood. II will be COM
| pleted in ten OF 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 remilling one
dollar will be entitled to FIVE numbers Orders
are respectfully solicited.
! GREELY q McELRATHs
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