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A System Of Familiar Philosophy: In Twelve Lectures; Being The Course Usually Read By Mr. A. Walker Containing The Elements And The Practical Uses To Be Drawn From The Chemical Properties Of Matter: The Principles and Application Of Mechanics; Of Hydrostatics; Of Hydraulics; Of Pneumatics; Of Magnetism; Of Electricity; Of Optics; And Of Astronomy. Including Every Material Modern Discovery And Improvement To The Present Time de Walker, Adam - 1799
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A System Of Familiar Philosophy: In Twelve Lectures; Being The Course Usually Read By Mr. A. Walker Containing The Elements And The Practical Uses To Be Drawn From The Chemical Properties Of Matter: The Principles and Application Of Mechanics; Of Hydrostatics; Of Hydraulics; Of Pneumatics; Of Magnetism; Of Electricity; Of Optics; And Of Astronomy. Including Every Material Modern Discovery And Improvement To The Present Time
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London: Printed for the Author, 1799. First edition. leather_bound. Modern full brown calf. Very good. /No Dust Jacket. 571 pages. 27 x 21 cm. Illustrated by forty-seven copper-engraved fold-out plates. "Walker traveled as a lecturer in natural philosophy, and after visiting most of the great town of Great Britain and Ireland, he met Joseph Priestley who induced him to lecture in the Haymarket in 1778." [see: DNB, p.2173]. His mechanical inventions included engines for raising water, carriages powered by wind or steam, a road mill, a machine for watering land, and a dibbling plough. With half title, List of Subsribers and Extensive Indes. Book label, fore-edges of some plates embrowned with slight loss, half centimeter chip spine head toward back cover.
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- Fecha de publicación 1799
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A System of Familiar Philosophy: in Twelve Lectures, being the course usually read by Mr. A. Walker, containing The Elements and the Practical Uses to be from the chemical properties of matter; the principles and application of mechanics; of hydrostatics; of hydraulics: of pneumatics; of magnetism; of electricity; of optics; and of astronomy. Including every material modern discovery and improvement to the present time.
de WALKER, Adam (1730/31-1821)
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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…
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