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The posthumous works of Robert Hooke ... containing his Cutlerian lectures, and other discourses, read at the meetings of the illustrious Royal Society ... Illustrated with sculptures. To these discourses is prefixt the author's life, giving an account of his studies and employments, with an enumeration of the many experiments, instruments, contrivances and inventions, by him made and produc'd as Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society / publish'd by Richard Waller.

A lecture on the importance of a knowledge of physical science to the members of all professions, being introductory to a course of lectures on the application of acoustics to the discovery of chest diseases, delivered to the members of the medical profession, and of the Philosophical Institution, at Birmingham / by Peyton Blakiston.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and physical sciences

xxiii pages, 2 leaves : 699 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, diagrams ; 17 cm

The elements of natural philosophy, or, An introduction to the study of the physical sciences / by Golding Bird and Charles Brooke.

Nature communications.

Physical science / John M. Cleveland.

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Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and physical sciences

The elements of natural philosophy, or, An introduction to the study of the physical sciences / by Golding Bird and Charles Brooke.

Nature communications.

Physical science / John M. Cleveland.