A system of mechanical philosophy
By: By John Robison ... With notes, by David Brewster
Contributors: Brewster, David, 1781-1868, editor; Watt, James, 1736-1819
Publisher: Printed for J. Murray
Published: 1822
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 50
Subjects: Mechanics; Steam-engines; Astronomy; Physics
Notes: Compiled from the author's "Elements of mechanics", v. 1, 1804, with some manuscript intended to have formed part of a 2d vol. to the "Elements", and the greater part of the articles furnished by him to the "Encylopaedia britannica". cf. Allibone, Dict. of authors.

Vol. 2 has added t.-p.: The articles Steam and Steam-engines, written for the Encyclopaedia britannica by John Robison ... With notes and additions by James Watt ... And a letter on some properties of steam by the late John Southern, esq.