Volume 1

A preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy / By J.F.W. Herschel Cabinet Cyclopaeidia, ed., by D. Lardner. Natural philosophy.

John Frederick William Herschel

Date:: 1831

Credit: A preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy / By J.F.W. Herschel Cabinet Cyclopaeidia, ed., by D. Lardner. Natural philosophy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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