A system of experimental philosophy
Subtitle: prov'd by mechanicks. Wherein the principles and laws of physicks, mechanicks, hydrostatiks, and optiks, are demonstrated and explained at large, by a great number of curious experiments
By: by J. T. Desaguilers ... 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: Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727.
Publisher: Printed for B. Creake, J. Sackfield, and sold by W. Mearns
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. First published in 1719 without Desaguliers' knowledge by Paul Dawson and dedicated to Richard Steele. Republished in the same year by Desaguliers with a new title-page, preface and errata sheet added, under title: "Lectures of experimental philosophy."

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