Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1845-11-27
IN PRESS
POPULAR LECTURES
SCIENCE AND ART;
DELIVERED IN THE
Chief Cities and Towns I'm the u. q.


BY DIONYSIUS LARDNER-
Doc,or or Civil Fellow of the ROYAL Societies London
Edinburgh Member of the Universities Of Cambridge
and Dublin, and formerly Professor Of Natural PHI
losophy and Astronomy in the University OF
London, &c &C.
The publishers announce that DR.. LaI6ner hav-
inq 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 acknowi-
edged Probably no public lecturer ever contln-
ned for the same length of time to collect around
him so numerous audiences. Nor has there been
anv 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, Persplcuty OF
reasoning and felicity of illustration, which rem
6ered the oral discourses so universally accepta-
BILE 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
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 nave
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 De
mentioned: =,
The Plurality of Worlds; The Sun; The Moon
The Planets: The Comets: The Solar System /;
The Atmosphere; Popular Fallacies; Artificial IL
Elimination; Light; Sound; Electricity; Galvanism;
The Bridge Water Lecture; Lunar Influences
Weather Almanacs; Babbage's Calculating Ma
4 cbinery; Electric and Magnetic Telegraphs; The
Telescope and Microscope; Galileo; Copernicus:
I,avosier; Newton; The Stellar Universe; The
Power uf Steam; Steam Navigation; Aurora Bore
ais; Water Spouts; Thunder and Lightning; The
ory of Dew; Heat; The Barometer; The rhermom-
eter; &c &c. =,
The work will appear in numbers, or parts, VIII
be we'll printed on good type, and copously Illus
trated with engravings on wood. II will be COM
pleted in ten or twelve numbers, and the entire
volume will be published within SIX months Inc
price will be 25 cents for each number
Any person wishing to procure this valuable
work may apply to our agents, or TO any ot TN
Booksellers or Country Merchants In any part 9
the Usited States. Postmasters remltting on
dollar will be entitled to five numbers, Order
are respectfully solicited.
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