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.
