Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1845-08-14
IN PRESS
POPULAR LECTURES
SCIENCE AND ART;
DELIVERED IN THE

Chief Cities and Towns In the u. s.
BY DIONYSIUS LARDNER.
Doctor of Civil Law Fellow of the Royal Societies of London
and 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 DIR. EaIdneT hav-
ing brought 10 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 tor
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 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-
BILE will be preserved in the published report, which
will indeed be, as 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 a
most agreeable offering, and an Interesting and
useful miscellany of general information, which
Will also afford tlat large class OF persons WHO
have attended the Lectures an agreeable means
of revving the impressions from which they havo
already derived so much profit and pleasures
The subjects which will be included will em-
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 Sun; The Moon;
The Planets; The Comets; The Solar System;
The Atmosphere; Popular Fallacles; Artificial IL
Elimination; Light; Sound Eectrcity; Galvanism;
The Bridge Water Lecture; Lunar Influences;
Weather Almanacs; Babbage's Calculating Ma
chinery: Electric and Magnetic Telegraphs; The
Tc clescope and Microscope; Calico; Copernicus;
Lavolsier; Newton; The Stellar Universe; Tho
Power of Steam; Steam Navigation; Aurora Bore
ais; Water Spouts; Thunder and Lightning; The
ory of Dew; Heai The Barometer; The Thermonl-
eter; &c &c.
The work will appear in numbers, or parts. VIII
be well printed on good type, and copiously Illus
trated with engIavings on wood. Ia will be COM
pleted in ten or twelve numbers, and the entire
volnme will be published within SIX months Ihe
price will be % cents for each number.
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