Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1845-12-25
IN PRESS
POPULAR LECTURES
ON
SCIENCE AND ART;
DELIVERED IN THE
Chief Cities and Towns i'm the u. 8.
BY DIONYSIUS LARDNER.

Doctor of Civil Law Fellow of the Royal Societies of London
and Ednbugh 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.. La1dner 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, perspicuity of
reasoning and felicity of illustration, which rem
Gered the oral discourses universally accepta-
BILE will be preserved in the published report, which
will indeed be, 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
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 Sun; The Moon
The Planets: The Comets: The Solar System;
The Atmosphere; Popular Fallacies; Artificial IL
Elimination; Light Sound; Electricity; Gavanism;
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
alis; 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 copiously Illus
trated with engTavngs on wood IL will be COM
pleted in ten or twelve numbers, and the entire
volnme 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 Pos,masters remitting one
dollar will be entitled To FIVE numbers. Orders
are respectfully solicited
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