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A Course of Mechanical, Magnetical, Optical, Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Experiments
William Whiston and Francis Hauksbee
Before the lecture hall had electricity it had wonder: lodestones, lenses, and the newly invented air pump. Whiston's course runs through magnetism, optics, hydrostatics, and pneumatics, demonstrating each law with tabletop experiments an audience could watch. This is early physics as public theater. Pull up a chair to the show that taught a century how nature works.
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31 chapters
- 1A COURSE OF Mechanical, Magnetical, Optical, Hydrostatical, AND Pneumatical EXPERIMENTS.
- 2MECHANICKS.
- 3MAGNETICKS.
- 4OPTICKS.
- 5HYDROSTATICKS.
- 6PNEUMATICKS illustrated by Experiments for the most part Tubular, being such as were wont to be made before the Air-Pump was invented.
- 7The more known Properties of the Air established by the Air-Pump, and other Engines.
- 8The more hidden Properties of the Air consider'd by the help of the like Engines.
- 9Advertisement.
- 101 MECHANICKS.
- 11MECHANICKS. 2
- 12MECHANICKS. 3
- 13MECHANICKS. 4
- 14MECHANICKS. 5
- 15MECHANICKS. 6
- 167 OPTICKS.
- 17OPTICKS. 8
- 18OPTICKS. 9
+ 13 more. The full contents open with the book.
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