The life of James Watt : with selections from his correspondence / by James Patrick Muirhead.

  • Muirhead, James Patrick, 1813-1898.
Date:
1859
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Publication/Creation

London : John Murray, 1859.

Physical description

xvi, 572 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition

2nd ed. /

Notes

Inserted after p. 334: "Typographic facsimile. Erroneous title-page prefixed to the separate copies of Mr. Cavendish's 'Experiments on air,' (Read before the Royal Society, January 15, 1784)"
Appendix: No.I. List of the works of Denys Papin. No.II. Historical note on the discovery of the theory of the composition of water. By the Right Hon. Henry Lord Braugham. No.III. Summary of the history of the progress towards the discovery of the composition of water, and of the discovery itself. No.IV. Additional note on the discovery of the composition of water
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