Name: A System of Mechanical Philosophy: Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - Technology)
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Author: John Robison
ISBN: 9781108070379

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A System of Mechanical Philosophy: Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - Technology)

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Physical Book

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Author

John Robison

Year

2014

Language

English

Pages

742

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781108070379

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Synopsis "A System of Mechanical Philosophy: Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - Technology) "

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 Volume 1 contains articles on dynamics and on the construction of roofs, arches and bridges, as well as a previously unpublished manuscript on projectile motion.

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