A treatise of artificial magnets
Subtitle: in which is shewn an easy and expeditious method of making them, superior to the best natural ones: and also a way of improving the natural ones, and of changing or converting their poles. Directions are likewise given for making the mariner's needles in the best form, and for touching them most advantageously, &c
By: by J. Michell, B.A. Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge
Contributors: Bentham, Joseph, -1778, printer; Bathurst, Charles, bookseller; Beecroft, John, -1779, bookseller; Fletcher, James, 1710-1795, bookseller; Hildyard, John, -1757, bookseller; W. & J. Mount & T. Page; John and Paul Knapton (Firm); W. Thurlbourn and T. Merrill (Booksellers : Cambridge, England)
Edition: The second edition, corrected and improved.
Publisher: Printed by Joseph Bentham, printer to the University
Published: 1751
Place of publication: Cambridge; and sold by W. and J. Mount, and T. Page on Tower-Hill, J. & P. Knapton, in Ludgate-Street, C. Bathurst, in Fleetstreet, J. Beecroft, in Lombard-street, London; W. Thurlbourn, and T. Merrill, in Cambridge; J. Fletcher, at Oxford; and J. Hildyard, at York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
Subjects: Magnets; Early works to 1800; Magnetism
Notes: Originally published : 1750.

Signatures: pi1 A-I⁴ K⁴ ( -K4).

Rare Book copy: Rebound in half-calf over marbled paper boards, brown morocco, gilt-lettered spine label.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T125473