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A short account of a course of mechanical and experimental philosophy and astronomy. In which will be exhibited the Experiments Necessary for the Explanation of Natural Philosophy in General, Or the Properties of matter, and the Laws by which it acts; Consisting of the following parts, I. Mechanics. II. Hydrostatics. III. Optics. IV. Pneumatics. V. Astronomy. VI. Use of the Globes. To be performed at By Tho. Peat, Surveyor and Accomptant. The Instruments made Use of to illustrate these Experiments are exceeding curious, beautiful, accurate and compleat. Particularly a fine Orrery, as improv'd by Messrs. Cole and Son, Successors to Mr. Wright, Mathematical Instrument Maker to His majesty. A curious Model of a Fire Engine; a Friction Machine, &c. This Course will consist of Fourteen Lectures, each of which will take up about two Hours, and be continued twice or thrice a Week, on such Days and at such Hours, as shall be agreed on by the Majority of the Auditors at the first Lecture.
Peat, Thomas, 1708-1780.Date: [1744?]- Books
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Philosophical essays on the following subjects: I. On the ascent of vapours, the Formation of Clouds, Rain and Dew, and on several other Phoenomena of Air and Water. II. Observations and conjectures on the nature of the aurora borealis, and the Tails of Comets. III. On the principles of mechanicks. By Hugh Hamilton, D.D. F.R.S. Professor of Philosophy in the University of Dublin.
Hamilton, Hugh, 1729-1805.Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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The young gentleman's trigonometry : containing such elements of trigonometry, as are most useful and easy to be known. By Edward Wells, D. D. Rector of Cotesbach in Leicestershire.
Wells, Edward, 1667-1727.Date: 1714- Books
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Mathesis juvenilis: or a course of mathematicks for young students, ... Made English from the Latin of Jo. Christopher Sturmius, ... By George Vaux, M.D. In three volumes. ...
Sturm, Johann Christophorus, 1635-1703.Date: 1708-09- Books
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A treatise of the mechanical powers, wherein the laws of motion, and the properties of those powers are explained and demonstrated in an easy and familiar Method. Being the Substance of certain Discourses delivered at the Geometry-Lecture, at Gresham-College. By Andrew Motte.
Motte, Andrew, -1734.Date: MDCCXXXIII. [1733]