Name: A System of Mechanical Philosophy (Cambridge Library Collection - Technology) (Volume 4) (en Inglés)
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Author: Robison, John ; Brewster, David
ISBN: 9781108070409

portada A System of Mechanical Philosophy (Cambridge Library Collection - Technology) (Volume 4) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

John Robison

Ilustrado por

David Brewster

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Año

2014

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

704

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.6 x 14.0 x 3.9 cm

Peso

0.88 kg.

ISBN13

9781108070409

N° edición

Categorías

Historia de la ciencia

A System of Mechanical Philosophy (Cambridge Library Collection - Technology) (Volume 4) (en Inglés)

John Robison (Autor) · David Brewster (Ilustrado por) · Cambridge University Press · Tapa Blanda

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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 4 contains a variety of Robison's encyclopaedia articles: on electricity and on magnetism, various pieces on the physics of sound and music, and assorted others.