- Bib ID:
- 2514889
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703
- Printer:
- (S. Smith and B. Walford)
- Description:
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- London : Royal society, 1705
- xxviii, 572 [i.e. 505] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill ; 33 cm.
- Series:
- Landmarks of science
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Errors in paging.
- Subtitle: "The present deficiency of natural philosophy is discoursed of, with the methods of rendering it more certain and beneficial. The nature,motion and effects of light are treated of, particularly that of the sun and comets. An hypothetical explication of memory, how the organs made use of by the mind in its operation may be mechanically understood. An hypothesis and explication of the cause of gravity, or gravitation, magnetism, &c. Discourses ofearthquakes, their causes and effects, and histories of several; to which are annext physical explications of several of the fables in Ovid's Metamorphoses, very different from other mythologick interpreters. Lectures for improving navigation and astronomy, with the descriptions of several new and useful instruments and contrivances, the whole full of curious disquisitions and experiments."
- Reproduction:
- Micro-opaque. New York : Readex Microprint, 1973. 7 cards ; 23 x 15 cm. (Landmarks of science)
- Subject:
- Science
- Other authors/contributors:
- Waller, Richard
- Copyright:
-
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- Reason for copyright status:
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- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1705
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