Philosophia Britannica, or, A new and comprehensive system of the Newtonian philosophy, astronomy and geography
Subtitle: in a course of twelve lectures, with notes, containing the physical, mechanical, geometrical, and experimental proofs and illustrations of all the principal propositions in every branch of natural science : also a particular account of the invention, structure, improvement and uses of all the considerable instruments, engines, and machines, with new calculations relating to their nature, power, and operation : the whole collected and methodized from all the principal authors, and public memoirs to the present year, and embellish'd with seventy-five copper-plates
By: by B. Martin
Publisher: Printed by C. Micklewright and Co. for the author, and for M. Cooper in ... London, R. Raikes at Gloucester, B. Collins at Salisbury, and J. Leake and W. Frederick at Bath
Published: 1747
Place of publication: Reading [Eng.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Science; Early works to 1800
Notes: Signatures: v. 1. A⁸, a⁸ b⁴, B-Y⁸ Z⁴; v. 2. a⁸ b⁴, A-Kk⁸, Lℓ⁴.

Nos. XIV and XXXVIII (-XXXV) omitted in the numbering of the plates; a supernumerary leaf, containing cut-outs to be mounted on plate LXIV, is also provided.

Includes index.

"A catalogue of the principal books made use of in compiling the following work": v. 1, p. [25]-[28].

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