Collection de différens traités sur des instrumens d'astronomie, physique, etc. Divisée en deux parties / [João Jacinto de Magalhães].

  • Magalhães, João Jacinto de, 1722-1790
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Collection de différens traités sur des instrumens d'astronomie, physique, etc. Divisée en deux parties / [João Jacinto de Magalhães]. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Paris ; London : W. Richardson for B. White, etc., 1775-1780.

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2 volumes, folded plates : illustrations ; (4to)

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References note

ESTC T66032

Notes

T.p. dated '1775 & 1780'
All of these have separte t.ps
Illus. pasted to prelim. leaf of 4th essay.
Copy 1 Vol. 2 Note: With MS. inscription on fly-leaf 'Given by ye Author to Mr. Bewley & by him to B:F.' [probably Benjamin Franklin's hand] and another above dedicatory letter to the Count of Florida-Blanca, Spanish Foreign Minister 'This letter went along with one hundred copies I sent to Spain' [Magellan's hand].

Contents

'Description des nouveaux instrumens circulaires à reflection (1779), 'Description et usages des instrumens d'astronomie et de physique' (1779), 'Description et usages des nouveaux barometres' (1779), 'Essai sur la nouvelle théorie du feu élémentaire' (1780), 'Notice des instrumens d'astronomie, de géodesie, de physique, etc.' (1780)

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