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A system of mechanical philosophy.

Title: A system of mechanical philosophy. By John Robison ... With notes, by David Brewster.
Author: Robison, John, 1739-1805.
Publication: Edinburgh, Printed for J. Murray, 1822.

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4 v. and atlas of diagrs. on 50 fold. pl.; 22 cm.

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Compiled from the author's "Elements of mechanics", v. 1, 1804, with some manuscript intended to have formed part of a 2d vol. to the "Elements", and the greater part of the articles furnished by him to the "Encylopaedia britannica". cf. Allibone, Dict. of authors.
Vol. 2 has added t.-p.: The articles Steam and Steam-engines, written for the Encyclopædia britannica by John Robison ... With notes and additions by James Watt ... And a letter on some properties of steam by the late John Southern, esq.

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