Works ...
By: With a memoir of the author.
Contributors: Playfair, James George, 1786?-1857; Jeffrey, Francis Jeffrey, Lord, 1773-1850; Stewart, Dugald, 1753-1828
Publisher: A. Constable [etc.]
Published: 1822
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Subjects: Science -- Collected works
Notes: Edited by James G. Playfair.

"The admirable delineation of Mr. Playfair's character ... is from the pen of Francis Jeffrey, esq.; and in the appendix will be found a letter on the same subject by Mr. Dugald Stewart."
Table of contents: title: v. 1.  Biographical memoir.  Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth.-  v. 2.  Dissertation, exhibiting a general view of the progress of mathematical and physical science since the revival of letters in Europe.-  v. 3.  On the arithmetic of impossible quantities. On the causes which affect the accuracy of barometrical measurements. Remarks on the astronomy of the Brahmins.  On the origin and investigation of porisms.  Observations on the trigonometrical tables of the Brahmins.  Theorems relating to the figure of the earth.  On the solids of greatest attraction.  On the progress of heat in spherical bodies.  Account of a lithological survey of Schehallien.  On the naval tactics of the late John Clerk.-  v. 4.  Biographical account of Matthew Stewart.  Biographical account of James Hutton.  Biographical account of John Robison.  Review of Mudge's Account of the trigonometrical survey of England.  Review of Mechain et Delambre, Base du systèm métrique décimal.  Review of Laplace, Traité de mécanique céleste.  Review of Le Compte rendu par l'Institut de France.  Review of Lambton's Measurement of an arch of the meridian.  Review of Laplace, Essai philosophique sur les probabilités.  Review of Baron de Zach, Attraction des montagnes. Review of Kater on the pendulum.