Ferguson's lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, optics, geography, astronomy, and dialing. With notes and an appendix adapted to the present state of the arts and sciences / by David Brewster.

  • Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.
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1806
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Ferguson's lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, optics, geography, astronomy, and dialing. With notes and an appendix adapted to the present state of the arts and sciences / by David Brewster. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Edinburgh : Printed for Bell & Bradfute, J. Fairbairn : Mundell, Doig, & Stevenson, Edinburgh : J. & A. Duncan, Glasgow : and T. Ostell ... London, 1806.

Physical description

3 volumes, title page & 50 plates : illustrations ; (8vo)

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Edition

The second edition in two volumes with a quarto of plates.

Notes

Printed spine label: Ferguson's lectures by Brewster; atlas has printed spine label: Atlas to Ferguson's lectures by Brewster
Atlas has title: Plates illustrative of Ferguson's lectures on mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, optics, geography, astronomy, and dialing
Collation: v.1: xiv, [3], xx-lxviii, 422, [2], 8 p.; v.2: [3], vi-x, 510, [2] p.: [v.3]: [12], p., [50] folded leaves of plates
Publisher's original blue paper covers over printers waste with paper spine labels

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Includes bibliographic references and indexes

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