Ferguson's Lectures on select subjects
Subtitle: in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, optics, geography, astronomy, and dialling
By: A new edition, corrected and enlarged. With notes and an appendix, adapted to the present state of the arts and sciences. By David Brewster ... In two volumes. With a quarto volume of plates
Contributors: Brewster, David, 1781-1868, editor; Patterson, Robert, 1743-1824, editor
Publisher: Printed for and published by M. Carey, sold by S. F. Bradford [etc.
Published: 1806
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Mechanics; Early works to 1800; Optics; Celestial globes; Handbooks, manuals; Sundials; Eclipses
Other titles: Lectures on select subjects.
Notes: "A short account of the life of the author, written by himself": v. 1, p. [xvii]-xlviii.