Volume 1

Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, optics, geography, astronomy, and dialling / By James Ferguson. With notes, and an additional volume, containing the most recent discoveries in the arts and sciences. By David Brewster.

Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.

Date:: 1823

Credit: Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, optics, geography, astronomy, and dialling / By James Ferguson. With notes, and an additional volume, containing the most recent discoveries in the arts and sciences. By David Brewster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. LECTURE I. Of Matter and its Properties—Capillary Attraction—Pyrometer- Magnetism—Electricity jmge 1 LECTURE II. Of Central Forces—Whirling-table—Theory of the Tides—Motion of the Earth .17 LECTURE III. Of the Mechanical Powers—Strength of Materials .... 38 LECTURE IV. Of Mills, Cranes, Wheel-carriages, and the Engine for driving Piles 58 LECTURE V. Of Hydrostatics and Hydraulic Machines—Hydrostatic Paradox— Hydrostatic Bellows—Velocity of Fluids—Syphon—Tantalus’s Cup—Fountain at Command—Intermitting Springs—Common Pump—Forcing Pump—Pump Engine—Hydrostatical Tables *—Fire Engine—Persian Wheel-—Hydrostatic Balance—Specific Gravities—-Thermometer—Hydrometer 79 LECTURE VI. Of Pneumatics—On Winds—Air-pump—‘Air-gun, &c. . . 12b LECTURE VII. Of Optics—On the Eye—Microscopes—Single—Double—Solar— Telescopes Refracting Reflecting Multiply ing-glass—Ca- mera Obscura—Opera-glass—Prisms—Colours of Light, &c. 153 LECTURE VIII. I he description and use of the Terrestrial Globe . . . • 192 ' LECTURE IX. The description and use of the Celestial Globe and Armillary Sphere 004, LECTURE x. On the principles and art of Dialling—Dialling by the Globe— Dialling-lines—1 ables ol the Sun’s Place and Declination—$