A Compendious System of Natural Philosophy With Notes Containing The Mathematical Demonstrations and Some Occasional Remarks. Complete in 3 parts. Mechanics. Hydrostatics and Pneumatics. Optics.

J. Rowning

Published by Samuel Harding & John Rivinton, James Fletcher, Stanley Crowder, etc., The Bible and Crown and The Looking Glass, London Bridge, London., 1752

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3 parts of 4 complete in itself (the 4th part was always published separately) so complete in itself. This single volume has the 3 books in different editions dating from 1753 and 1759. There is a XLVIIIi pages contents, then a separate title page to each work. Part 1 "The properties of Bodies". Their Laws of Motion. The Mechanical Powers. 5th edition with Additions. 81 pages with 10 folding copper engraved plates. 1752. Part 2. Consists of; The Barometer. Causes of Winds. Ascent of Vapours and Their various Constituencies. Causes of Thunder and Lightning With a Solution of the Phenomena of the Aurora Borealis. A New Theory on Fermentation. 92 pp + 2 folding copperplates. 4th edition 1753. Part 3 Optics. 86 pages with 6 folding copperplates, 4th edition 1759. Parts on and two page numbers are a continuation, part 3 is numbers pages 1-86. Bound in full mottled calf, gilt titles embossed on the spine, 5 half-raised bands, some wear at edges and edges of the spine, name of "ex-libris J Goodman, college .1784 Oxon" on FFEP and inside front board, "Richard's Library Oxford". Octavo. Various dates 1752-59 Sold as 3 parts in one volume as published. ***Author was: John Rowning, M. A. Rector of Anderby in Lincolnshire, and late Fellow of Magdalen College in Cambridge.

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A Compendious System of Natural Philosophy With Notes Containing The Mathematical Demonstrations and Some Occasional Remarks. Complete in 3 parts. Mechanics. Hydrostatics and Pneumatics. Optics.

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Samuel Harding & John Rivinton, James Fletcher, Stanley Crowder, etc., The Bible and Crown and The Looking Glass, London Bridge, London.

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1752

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Revised Edition

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