A compendious system of natural philosophy. With notes, containing the mathematical demonstrations, and some occasional remarks. Part II. Continued. Consisting of five Dissertations. I. Of the Barometer. II. Of the Cause and Origin of the Winds. III. Of the Ascent of Vapours, and their Resolution into Rain, Hail, Snow, &c. IV. Of the Causes of Thunder and Lightning, with a Solution of the Phaenomena of the Aurora Borealis. V. A New Theory of Fermentation. By J. Rowning, M. A. Rector of Anderby in Lincolnshire, and late Fellow of Magdalen College in Cambridge.
- Rowning, J. (John), 1701?-1771.
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- [1745]
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Compendious system of natural philosophy. Part 2 continued
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London : printed for Sam. Harding, on the Pavement in St. Martin's Lane, [1745]
Physical description
[2],83-176p.,plates ; 80.
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Edition
The third edition.
References note
ESTC T81172
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