The American oracle, comprehending an account of recent discoveries in the arts and sciences. With a variety of religious, political, physical, and philosophical subjects, necessary to be known in all families, for the promotion of their present felicity and future happiness / By the Honourable Samuel Stearns.

  • Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809.
Date:
1791
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Credit: The American oracle, comprehending an account of recent discoveries in the arts and sciences. With a variety of religious, political, physical, and philosophical subjects, necessary to be known in all families, for the promotion of their present felicity and future happiness / By the Honourable Samuel Stearns. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t VI PREFACE. A few things in Profe are extracted from various Authors ; but the Poetry, with the exception of a few lines, was compofed by the Author himfelf. As the fubjects are nu- s merous, brevity has neceffarily been attended to, and every endeavour uled to comprehend inultum in parvo, and preferve accuracy and correctnefs. Bat as errors may have efcaped his obfervation, Ihould any be difcovered by the Readers, he will thankfully receive their communications of the fame, and carefully endeavour to attend to their correction in a future edition. Philofophv, and the Liberal Arts and Sci- ences which have been nurtured by its pro- grels and improvements, and has fhone out with fueh remarkable lplendor in thefe mo- dern ages, have been the objects of his early and unremitting Rudy. The practice of Phy- fic, and the making of ARronomical Calcu- lations, engaged his attention for upwards of twenty years, and in the courfe of his travels in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, and many parts of America, he has attended Lectures upon Phyliology, ChymiRry, Mag- netilm, Electricity, Optics, ARronomy, and other Branches ot Natural and Experimental Philofophy,