Branch of natural science that studies non-living systems

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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.

Papers of the Dublin Philosophical Society 1683-1709 / edited by K. Theodore Hoppen.

A dictionary of science : comprising astronomy, chemistry, dynamics, electricity, heat, hydrodynamics, hydrostatics, light, magnetism, mechanics, meteorology, pneumatics, sound, and statics; preceded by an essay on the history of the physical sciences / edited by G.F. Rodwell.

The invisible powers of nature / by E.M. Caillard.

The problem of the earth's shape from Newton to Clairaut : the rise of mathematical science in eighteenth-century Paris and the fall of "normal" science / John L. Greenberg.

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.

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Papers of the Dublin Philosophical Society 1683-1709 / edited by K. Theodore Hoppen.

A dictionary of science : comprising astronomy, chemistry, dynamics, electricity, heat, hydrodynamics, hydrostatics, light, magnetism, mechanics, meteorology, pneumatics, sound, and statics; preceded by an essay on the history of the physical sciences / edited by G.F. Rodwell.

The invisible powers of nature / by E.M. Caillard.

The problem of the earth's shape from Newton to Clairaut : the rise of mathematical science in eighteenth-century Paris and the fall of "normal" science / John L. Greenberg.