Resultados de búsqueda: A System Of Familiar Philosophy de Adam Walker

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London:: Printed for the author, at his house; G. Kearsley. Edinburgh: Bell and Bradfute, 1799., 1799. 4to. [iii]-xviii, 571 pp. 47 copper-plates (many folding), errata, list of subscribers, index; foxed, lacks half-title. Original boards, with original calf replaced with recent half-calf, gilt-stamped spine, brown spine label. Edges unevenly trimmed. PROVENANCE: J. Cook (early signature, corner of title-page; note – his name is not among those on the subscriber's list). Very good. First edition. The arrangement of the book follows what the author describes as 12 lectures (chapters), including: I. System of Nature. II. Particle of Matter, their minuteness, hardness, extension, divisibility, inertia, and cohesion, and on magnetism. III. Mechanics. IV. On Chemistry. V. On the Atmosphere. VI. Hydrostatics – hydraulics. VII. Electricity. VIII. Electricity continued. IX. Optics. X. Astronomy. XI. On the Moon. XII. Astronomy continued. Walker illustrates Watts new patent steam engine along with a… Leer más