Recreations in mathematics and natural philosophy
Subtitle: containing amusing disserations and enquiries concerning a variety of subjects the most remarkable and proper to excite curiosity and attention to the whole range of mathematical and philosophical sciences : the whole treated in pleasing and easy manner, and adapted to the comprehension of all who are the least initiated in those sciences: viz. arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, mechanics, optics, acoustics, music, astronomy, geography, chronology, dialling, navigation, architecture, pyrotechny, pneumatics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, magnetism, electricity, chemistry, palingenesy, &c
By: First composed by M. Ozanam, of the Royal Academy of Sciences, &c. Lately recomposed, and greatly enlarged, in a new edition, by the celebrated M. Montulca. And now translated into English, and improved with many additions and observations, by Charles Hutton, LL. D. and F.R.S. and Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. In four volumes ; with near one hundred quarto plates
Contributors: Montucla, Jean Etienne, 1725-1799; Hutton, Charles, 1737-1823; Mutlow, H., active 1780-1840
Publisher: Printed for G. Kearsley, Fleet-Street. By T. Davison, White-Friars.
Published: 1803
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Scientific recreations; Mathematical recreations; Games in mathematics education; Mathematics; Problems, exercises; Physics
Other titles: Montucla's recreations
Work titles: Récréations mathématiques et physiques
Notes: Illustrations: engravings by Mutlow.