Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1846-01-01
IN PRESS
POPULAR LECTURES
ON
SCIENCE AND ART;
DELIVERED IN THE
Chief Cities and Towns in the u. g.

BY DlONYSiUS LARDNER.
Doctor Civil Law Fellow the Royal Societies Of London
inbugh Member Of the Unlrerslties OF Cambridge
and Dublin. and formerly Professor Of Natural Phi
cSophy and Astronomy IN tie University Of
London &c &c
The publishers announce that Dr. IaIdner hav-
ing brought to close lis 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 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, perspiculty 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 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
nave attenOeu tie LcCtuItS, an oSiCooSAS "iSA'S
of reyiying 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 Iife 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; Galvanlsm;
The Bridge Water Lecture; Lunar Influences
Weather Almanacs; Babbage's Calculating Ma
chinery: Electric and Magnetic Telegraphs; The
| Telescope and Microscope; Calico; Copernlcus;
/ Lavoisier; Newton; The Stellar Universe; The
Power of Steam; Steam Navigation; Aurora bore
alis; Water Spouts; Thunder and lightning; ne
ory of Dew; Heat; The Barometer; The lhermom-
eter; &c &c. :,
The work will appear in numbers, or parts, VIII
be well printed on good type and copiously Illus
trated with epgravngs on wood 1t will be COM
| pleted in ten or twelve numbers, and the entire
volnme will be published within six months. lhe
price will be 25 cents for each number.
| Any person wishing 10 procure this valuabie
work may apply to our agents, or to any OF tile
| booksellers or Country Merchants In any part o.
the United States Postmaslers remitting one
dollar will be entitled to five numbers. Orders
are respectfully solicited
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