Science - Early works to 1800
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An epitome of a course of lectures on natural and experimental philosophy as they are delivered By John Banks.
Banks, John, fl. 1795-1803.Date: 1800- E-books
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An easy introduction to the arts and sciences Being a short, but comprehensive system useful and polite learning, divided into lessons. Illustrated with cuts, and adapted to the use of schools and academies. By R. Turner, Jun. LL. D. late of Magdalen Hall, Oxford: author of An easy introduction to geography, &c.
Turner, R. (Richard), 1753-1788.Date: 1796- E-books
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Acta Germanica: or, The literary memoirs of Germany, &c. Being a choice collection of what is most valuable and really useful, not only in the several literary acts, publish'd in different parts of Germany, and the North; as, the Miscellanea Curiosa of the imperial society at Vienna. The Breslaw collection. Acta Eruditorum Lipsi. Commentarii academiæ scientiarum imperialis petropolitanæ. Acta Literaria sueciæ. Commerc. Lit. Norimberg. Miscellanea Berolinensia. Acta Hafniensia. The acts of the Royal Society at Stockbolm, &c. but likewise in the several academical theses, or Dissertations in the several faculties, at the universities all over Germany, &c. Done from the Latin and High-Dutch by a society of gentlemen. Vol. I. Illustrated with copper-plates.
Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- E-books
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Letters, philosophical and astronomical , in which the following operations of nature and treated of and explained, in the most simple and natural Manner, According to Sir Isaac Newton's Opinions, (viz.) the creation; the deluge; Vegetation; the Make and Form of this terraqueous Globe;-Its Motions explained and accounted for. Together with the exact number of days, Years, and Lunations, since the creation. Proved by the New, Full Moons, Equinoxes, and Eclipses. To which is added, a solar and lunar diagram for A.D. 1786, In which the Place of the Sun, Earth, Moon and her Nodes, are pointed out every Day in the Year, and every Day of the Week.
Penrose, Francis, 1718-1798.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]- E-books
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The religious philosopher or, the right use of contemplating the works of the Creator. I. In the wonderful Structure of Animal Bodies, and in particular Man. II. In the no less wonderful and wise Formation of the Elements, and their various Effects upon Animal and Vegetable Bodies. And, III. In the most amazing Structure of the Heavens, with all its Furniture. Designed for the conviction of atheists and infidels. Throughout which, all the late discoveries in anatomy, philosophy, and astronomy, together with the various Experiments made use of to illustrate the same, are most copiously handled by that learned mathematician, Dr. Nieuwentyt. Translated from the original, by John Chamberlayne, Esq; F. R. S. To which is Prefix'd, A Letter to the Translator, by the Reverend J. T. Desaguliers, M.A. F.R.S. Adorn'd with Cuts.
Nieuwentyt, Bernard, 1654-1718.Date: MDCCXVIII. [1718]