Physics - Early works to 1800
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A compendious system of natural philosophy With notes, containing the mathematical demonstrations, and some occasional remarks. In four parts. ... By J. Rowning, M. A. Rector of Anderby in Lincolnshird, and late Fellow of Magdalen College in Cambridge.
Rowning, J. (John), 1701?-1771.Date: 1753- E-books
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Experimental philosophy asserted and defended , against some late attempts to undermine it.
Date: 1740- E-books
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Syllabus of a course of lectures on natural and experimental philosophy , by A. Walker, Lecturer to his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, to Eton and Winchester Colleges, and Members of the Dublin Society.
Walker, A. (Adam), 1730 or 31-1821.Date: 1790?]- E-books
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Lectures of experimental philosophy Wherein the principles of mechanicks, hydrostaticks, and opticks, are demonstrated and explained at large, by a great number of curious experiments: with a description of the air-pump, and the several experiments thereon: of the condensing-engines; as also of the different species of barometers, thermometers, and hygrometers; with several experiments to prove and explain sir Isaac Newton's theory of light and colours, as performed in a course of mechanical and experimental philosophy. By J. T. Desaguliers, M.A. F.R.S. Illustrated with several curious copper plates to each subject. To which is added, a description of Mr. Rowley's machine, called the Orrery, which represents the motion of the Moon about the Earth, Venus and Mercury about the Sun, according to the Copernican System: All carefully examined and corrected by Mr. Desaguliers.
Desaguliers, J. T. (John Theophilus), 1683-1744.Date: MDCCXIX. [1719]- E-books
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Lectures in experimental philosophy . By Mr L'Abbé Nollet, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. And Fellow of the Royal Society at London. Translated from the French by John Colson, A.M. F.R.S. And Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge.
Nollet, abbé (Jean Antoine), 1700-1770.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]