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A system of experimental philosophy : prov'd by mechanicks. Wherein the principles and laws of physicks, mechanicks, hydrostaticks, and opticks, are demonstrated and explained at large, by a great number of curious experiments

Archive Print Item: Early Science 3 1719/DES

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Type of record: Book

Title: A system of experimental philosophy : prov'd by mechanicks. Wherein the principles and laws of physicks, mechanicks, hydrostaticks, and opticks, are demonstrated and explained at large, by a great number of curious experiments

Level: Item

Classmark: Early Science 3 1719/DES

Creator(s): Desaguliers, J T (1683-1744)

Additional creator(s): Rowley, John (fl. 1700) (Other); Dawson, Paul (fl. 1719) (Other); Newton, Isaac (1642-1727) (Other)

Related people: Rowley, John; Dawson, Paul; Newton, Isaac

Publisher: printed for B. Creake: J. Sackfield: and sold by W Mears

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1719

Language: English

Size and medium: [24], 201, [5] p., 10 folded leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/246888

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991015663779705181

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Dedication signed: Paul Dawson [the editor]. With an additional title page (leaf A1 recto): "Lectures of experimental philosophy.... By J. T. Desaguliers" with imprint: "London: printed for W. Mears; B. Creake; and J. Sackfield. MDCCXIX." A reissue, with a new titlepage, of the sheets of his "Lectures of experimental philosophy," London 1719.


ESTC T135774 and T135775.

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