Philosophical essays
By: by Hugh Hamilton ...
Edition: The fourth edition / reprinted from the second edition, improved and enlarged.
Publisher: Printed for C. Nourse ...
Published: 1783
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Meteorology; Early works to 1800; Vapors; Comets; Mechanics; Physics
Notes: Signatures: A-G¹², H⁶ (H6 advertisements).
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) I. On the ascent of vapours, the formation of clouds, rain and dew, and on several other phoenomena of air and water; title: II. Observations and conjectures on the nature of the aurora borealis, and the tails of comets; title: III. On the principles of mechanicks.