Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Optics, Geography, Astronomy, and Dialling, Volume 1Stirling & Slade, and Bell & Bradfute, 1823 - Eclipses |
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LECTURE | i |
Of Matter and its PropertiesCapillary AttractionPyrometer | 1 |
LECTURE II | 17 |
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