A system of experimental philosophy
Subtitle: prov'd by mechanicks : wherein the principles and laws of physicks, mechanicks, hydrostaticks, and opticks, are demonstrated and explained at large, by a great number of curious experiments : with a full description of the air-pump, and the several experiments thereon : as also of the different species of barometer, thermometers, and hydrometers, as shewn at the publick lectures in a course of mechanical and experimental philosophy
By: as performed by J.T. Desaguilers, M.A. F.R.S. ; illustrated with several copper plates. To which is added, Sir Isaac Newton's colours : the description of the condensing engine, with its apparatus. And, Rowley's Horary : a machine representing the motion of the moon about the earth, Venus and Mercury about the sun, according to the Copernican system
Contributors: Dawson, Paul, contributor; Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727, contributor
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Religion, Reform, and Society; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Religion, Reform, and Society
Publisher: Printed for B. Creake, J. Sackfield, and sold by W. Mears
Published: 1719
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Physics; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Lectures of experimental philosophy
Notes: First edition, second issue. originally published in 1719 without Desaguliers' knowledge by Paul Dawson and dedicated to Richard Steele. This issue republished in the same year by Desaguliers with a new title-page (where it is called the second edition), preface and errata sheet added.

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Reproduction of the original from the British Library.