Author: Joseph Hirst LuptonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Wakefield worthies, biographical sketches
Author: Joseph Hirst LuptonWakefield Worthies
Author: Joseph Hirst LuptonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wakefield (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A catalogue of the library of the corporation of ... London
Author: London corporation, librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn
Author: Gray's Inn. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
Book Description
GUIDE PRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS RELATING TO ENGLISH AND FOREIGN HERALDRY AND GENEALOGY
Author: GEORGE GATFIELDWeighing the World
Author: Russell McCormmachPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400720211
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
The book about John Michell (1724-93) has two parts. The first and longest part is biographical, an account of Michell’s home setting (Nottinghamshire in England), the clerical world in which he grew up (Church of England), the university (Cambridge) where he studied and taught, and the scientific activities he made the center of his life. The second part is a complete edition of his known letters. Half of his letters have not been previously published; the other half are brought together in one place for the first time. The letters touch on all aspects of his career, and because they are in his words, they help bring the subject to life. His publications were not many, a slim book on magnets and magnetism, one paper on geology, two papers on astronomy, and a few brief papers on other topics, but they were enough to leave a mark on several sciences. He has been called a geologist, an astronomer, and a physicist, which he was, though we best remember him as a natural philosopher, as one who investigated physical nature broadly. His scientific contribution is not easy to summarize. Arguably he had the broadest competence of any British natural philosopher of the eighteenth century: equally skilled in experiment and observation, mathematical theory, and instruments, his field of inquiry was the universe. From the structure of the heavens through the structure of the Earth to the forces of the elementary particles of matter, he carried out original and far-reaching researches on the workings of nature.
The Athenaeum
Author: The Publishers' Circular
Author: The Bookseller
Author: Publisher and Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1144
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.