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-engine; 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 suitable 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. Desaguliens.

[22], 201, [5] p. (last p. blank), 10 leaves of plates (9 folded) :, 21 cm. (4°)

QC123 .D4 1719

Rowley, John, -- active 1700. -- Horary., Newton, Isaac, -- 1642-1727. -- Opticks., Optics -- Early works to 1800., Physics -- Early works to 1800.

England--London: at the Bible in Jermyn-Street Printed for W. Mears at the Lamb without Temple-Bar; B. Creake, St. James's; and J. Sackfield in Lincolns-Inn-Square,, MDCCXIX. [1719]

Book