Rational recreations
Subtitle: in which the principles of numbers and natural philosophy are clearly and copiously elucidated, by a series of easy, entertaining, interesting experiments : among which are all those commonly performed with the cards
By: by W. Hooper.
Edition: 4th ed., corr.
Publisher: B. Law and Son
Published: 1787
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Scientific recreations; Playing cards.
Notes: Title pages signed John Strachan 1811.
Table of contents: value: v. 1. Arithmetical and mechanical experiments; value: v. 2. Experiments in optics, chromatics, and acoustics; value: v. 3. Electrical and magnetical experiments; value: v. 4. Experiments in pneumatics, hydrology, and pyrotechnics, with an appendix of miscellaneous recreations.