A System of Mechanical Philosophy 4 Volume Set Mixed media product
by John Robison
Edited by David Brewster
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Technology series
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After a brief career at sea, during which he tested Harrison's chronometer for the Board of Longitude, John Robison (1739-1805) became lecturer in chemistry at the University of Glasgow.
In 1774, having spent a period teaching mathematics in Russia, he returned to Scotland as professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh.
Despite his busy schedule, he contributed major articles on the sciences to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, giving an overview of contemporary scientific knowledge for the educated layperson.
After his death, these and other pieces of his scientific writing were edited by his former pupil David Brewster (1781-1868) and were finally published in four volumes in 1822, with a separate volume of illustrative plates.
This reissue incorporates those plates in the relevant volumes of text.
Volume 1 covers dynamics; Volume 2 mainly machinery, including the steam engine; Volume 3 astronomy and pneumatics; Volume 4 electricity, magnetism and sound.
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- Format:Mixed media product
- Pages:3018 pages, 49 Plates, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:21/08/2014
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- ISBN:9781108070416
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Item not Available
- Format:Mixed media product
- Pages:3018 pages, 49 Plates, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:21/08/2014
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- ISBN:9781108070416
