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Natural philosophy
（Literature and science, 1660-1834 / general editor, Judith Hawley ; advisory editor, Akihito Suzuki, v. 7）
Pickering & Chatto, 2004
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Reprinted from various works published in 1660-1832
Bibliography: p. [409]-416
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Description
This volume reproduces primary texts which embody the polymathic nature of the literature of science, and provides editorial overviews and extensive references, to provide a resource for specialized academics and researchers with a broad cultural interest in the long 18th century.
Table of Contents
- Part II Volume 5: Fauna Robert Hooke, Micrographia: or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses (1665)
- John Ray, F.R.S., Philosophical Letters between Mr Ray and Several of his Correspondents (1718)
- John Ray, F.R.S., The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation (1691)
- Edward Tyson, MD, Orang-Outang, sive Homo sylvestris (1699)
- Henry Baker, F.R.S., The Microscope Made Easy (1742)
- Charles Linnaeus, The Animal Kingdom, or, Zoological System, of Sir C. Linnaeus ... by Robert Kerr (1792)
- Thomas Pennant, British Zoology (1768-70) and Arctic Zoology (1784)
- Lord Monboddo [James Burnett], 'Preface' to Mme Hecquet, Account of a Savage Girl caught Wild in the Woods of Champagne, trans. William Robertson (1768) and On the Origin and Process of Language (1773-92)
- George Louis LeClerc, Comte de Buffon, Natural History, General and Particular (1780, 1785)
- Oliver Goldsmith, An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature (1774)
- Charles Bonnet, 'Experiments on the Reproduction of the Head of the Terrestrial Snail' from Lazzaro Spallanzani, Opuscoli di fisica animale e vegetabile, trans. John Graham Dalyell as Tracts on the Nature of Animals and Vegetables (1799)
- Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia
- or The Laws of Organic Life (1794, 1796)
- Daines Barrington, 'Experiments and Observations on the Singing of Birds', from The History of Singing Birds, Containing an Exact Description of their Habits & Customs (1791)
- Gilbert White, A Naturalist's Calendar, with Observations in Various Branches of Natural History (1795)
- Thomas Bewick and Ralph Beilby, History of British Birds, 6th edn (1826) Volume 6: Astronomy John Wilkins, A Discourse Concerning a New World and Another Planet (1640)
- Thomas Burnet, A Sacred Theory of the Earth (1691)
- Christiaan Huygens, The Celestial Worlds Discovered (1698)
- William Whiston, A New Theory of the Earth, from its Original, to the Consummation of All Things (1696) and Astronomical Principles of Religion, Natural and Reveal'd (1717)
- John Harris, Astronomical Dialogues between a Gentleman and a Lady (1719)
- Andrew Baxter, Matho: or The Cosmotheoria Puerilis, a Dialogue (1740)
- Thomas Wright, An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750)
- John Hill, Urania: or, A Compleat View of the Heavens (1754)
- James Ferguson, Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles and Made Easy to Those Who Have Not Studied Mathematics (1756)
- Roger Long, Astronomy (1764 [actually after 1784])
- John Newbery, The Newtonian System of Philosophy (1761)
- William Herschel, 'Catalogue of a Second Thousand of New Nebulae and Clusters of Stars', Philosophical Transactions (1789) and 'On the Nature and Construction of the Sun', Philosophical Transactions (1795)
- Robert Harrington, A New System on Fire and Planetary Life (1796)
- Adam Walker, An Epitome of Astronomy (1817)
- John Herschel, Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (1830) Volume 7: Natural Philosophy Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-mechanicall (1660)
- Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science (1665)
- Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra: or, A Discourse of the Universe as it is the Creature and Kingdom of God (1701)
- John Harris, Lexicon Technicum: or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1704)
- John Hutchinson, Moses's Principia (1724)
- Robert Green, Principles of the Philosophy of Expansive and Contractive Forces (1727)
- Isaac Newton, 'General Scholium', Principia Mathematica (1729)
- Roger Cotes, 'Preface', Principia Mathematica (1729)
- John Rowning, Compendious System of Natural Philosophy (1735)
- Richard Symes, Fire Analysed: or, The Several Parts of which it is Composed Demonstrated by Experiment (1771)
- Richard Lovett, The Electrical Philosopher (1774)
- Bryan Higgins, A Philosophical Essay Concerning Light (1776)
- Oliver Goldsmith, A Survey of Experimental Philosophy, Considered in its Present State of Improvement (1776)
- Richard Fowler, Experiments and Observations relative to the Influence Lately Discovered by M. Galvani, and Commonly Called Animal Electricity (1793)
- William Paley, Natural Theology: or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature (1802)
- John Herschel, Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (1830)
- Charles Babbage, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (1832) Volume 8: Chemistry George Thomson, Galeno-pale: or, A Chymical Trial of the Galenists, that their Dross in Physick may be Discovered (1665)
- Christopher Merrett, A Short View of the Frauds, and Abuses Committed by Apothecaries (1670)
- Stephen Hales, Vegetable Staticks: or, An Account of Some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables (1727)
- John Arbuthnot, 'Concerning the Influences of the Air on Human Constitution and Diseases', An Essay concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies (1733)
- Henry Brooke, Universal Beauty: A Poem (1735)
- Tiberius Cavallo, 'History of Aerostation'
- 'Account of the first Aerial Voyage'
- 'Practice of Aerostation', The History and Practice of Aerostation (1785)
- Erasmus Darwin, 'A Letter to Thomas Beddoes on Methods for Treating Pulmonary Consumption'
- Thomas Beddoes, 'A Letter to Erasmus Darwin on a New Method of Treating Pulmonary Consumption' (1793)
- ['John Gifford' (John Richards Green)], 'The Pneumatic Revellers. An Eclogue', Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine
- or, Monthly Political and Literary Censor, 6 (April-August 1800)
- Humphry Davy, A Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry, Delivered in the Theatre of the Royal Institution on the 21st of January 1802 (1802)
- Jane Marcet, 'On the General Principles of Chemistry'
- 'On Oxygen and Nitrogen', Conversations on Chemistry, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments (1817)
- Jeremiah Joyce, 'What is Chemistry?'
- 'Oxygen'
- 'Atmospheric Air & Eudiometry', Dialogues in Chemistry, intended for the Instruction and Entertainment of Young People (1816)
- Edward Daniel Clarke, 'Account of some Experiments made with Newman's Blow-pipe, by Inflaming a Highly Condensed Mixture of the Gaseous Constituents of Water', Journal of Science and the Arts, 2 (1817)
- [Thomas Hodgskin], 'Cheap Wine & Brandy'
- 'Cheap Drunkenness'
- 'The Galvanic Pile', The Chemist, 1 (1824)
- Humphry Davy, 'The Chemical Philosopher', Consolations in Travel, or the Last Days of a Philosopher (1830)
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