UID:
edocfu_9960010594902883
Format:
1 online resource (425 p.)
Edition:
First edition. new impression.
ISBN:
1-136-23029-7
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1-136-23022-X
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0-203-04143-7
Series Statement:
Cass Library of Science Classics ; Number 8
Content:
First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Note:
Facsimile reprint of 1st ed. published as 'Philosophical experiments and observations of the late eminent Dr. Robert Hooke.' London, printed by W. J. Innys, printers to the Royal Society, 1726.
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Publisher''s Note to the 1967 Edition; Editor''s Note to the 1967 Edition; Table of Contents; Dedication; To the Reader; Of the Invention of the Barometer; Kingkardine''s Observations of Pendulum Clocks at Sea; Hooke''s Experiment of Weighing Air; A Brief Account of the Experiments tried before the Royal Society, with Glass Balls; The Pressures of Bodies on Different Mediums; Hooke''s Enquiries for Greenland; Hooke''s Enquiries for Iceland; Hooke''s Proposals on the Resistance of Air; Hooke''s Experiment on the Refraction of Ice and Crystal
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Hooke''s Method of Making ExperimentsOldenburg''s Letter to Hooke, 23 August 1665; Powell''s Letter to Daniell, 6 January 1665/66; Powell''s Letter to Daniell, 27 September 1666; Brown''s Account of Petrified Bone, &c; Towneley''s Observations of Water; Fran''s Letter on Earthquakes; On Bees-Wax; Carte on the Belland; Hooke''s Weather-Clock; Hooke''s Self-Emptying Vessel; Toinard on Longitude; Toinard on the Eclipses of Jupiter; Hooke on Hailstones; Paschall''s Letter to Hooke, 4 January 1680; Leuwenhoek on Animalcules; Reiselius'' Letter to Grew, 6 March 1680
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Pigot''s Letter to Hooke, 26 November 1681Leuwenhoek on the Structure of Hair, &c; Hooke''s Letter to Trapham, 18 February 1681/82; Leuwenhoek on the Fibres of Muscles; Carte on Worms in the Stomach; Yonge''s Letter to Hooke; Molyneux''s Anatomical Observations; Hooke on the Rule of False Position; Hooke on Earths, Salts, &c; Hooke''s Experiments on Floating of Lead; Hooke''s Experiments on the Pressure of Water in Pipes; Experiments on the Elasticity of the Air; Experiments on Compression; Observations of Sound; Hooke''s Windmill; Hooke''s Contrivance to Stop Great Weights Falling
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Hooke on Impressions of MedalsHooke on Reproducing Pictures; Hooke on the Improvement of Scales, &c; Japanese Scales; Hooke on the Weight of Liquors; Hooke on Magnetism in Drills; Hooke on the Strength of Ice; Hooke on the Expansion of Water by Freezing; Hooke on the Specific Gravity of Ice; Hooke on the Phaenomena of Ice; Hooke on Long-Distance Communication; Hooke''s Discourse of Carriages; Houses Paying Chimney-Money; Hooke on the Barometer; Bolognian Phosphorus; Liquid Phosphorus; Metallic Phosphorus; Brandt on Phosphoros Elementaris; Baldwyn on Phosphorus; De Germinatione Metalli
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Baldwyn on TinOn Orvietano; Ink for Printing; Divers Curious Recepts, Collected by Hooke; Caswell''s Discourse on the Sun-Dial; Hooke''s Way of finding the true Meridian; Hooke on Dimensions in the Mixture of Vitriol and Fair Water; An Account of the Plant called Bangue; Hooke on Gems; Wallis'' Account of Printing in Oxford; Hooke on Instruments for Sounding the great Depths of the Sea; Hooke''s Observations on the Lake-Wetter in Swedeland; Hooke''s Discourse Concerning Telescopes and Microscopes; Hooke''s Invention of a Reflecting Telescope
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Waller''s Observations on Hooke''s Discourse on Telescopes and Microscopes
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-12956-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7146-1115-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203041437
