Recreations in Science and Natural Philosophy: Dr. Hutton's Translation of Montucla's Edition of Ozanam

William Tegg and Company, 1851 - 826 pages

PART FIRST	1

Of some Short Methods of performing Arithmetical Operations	7

Of certain Properties of Numbers	13

Of Figurate Numbers	21

CHAPTER VI	28

depend upon them	41

CHAPTER IX	48

Arithmetical Amusements in Divination and Combinations	62

On Eclipses	431

To observe an Eclipse of the Moon	440

To measure the Height of Mountains	446

To find the Moons	485

Lunar Years Calends Nones and Ides	493

Table of the most remarkable Epochs Æras and Events	499

PART SEVENTH	509

To trace out a Dial on any plane whatever	515

Curious Arithmetical problems	82

Of Magic Squares	94

Political Arithmetic	105

Page	114

PART THIRD MECHANICS	195

Of the Perpetual Motion	237

Historical account of some celebrated Mechanical Works	244

Balloons Telegraphs	252

Table of the Specific Gravities of different bodies	260

PART FOURTHI	268

Camera Lucida	274

Spherical Mirrors	301

Of Telescopes both refracting and reflecting	311

Of Salts and Acids	346

PART FIFTH	364

On the cause of the pleasure arising from Music	387

On the properties of certain Instruments	390

Method of improving Barrel Instruments	396

To find the distances between places on the Earth by graphic projection	425

On the most expeditious method of coming up with a vessel in chase	548

To cut a given tree into a beam of the greatest resistance	554

On diminishing the thrust of Arches	566

PART TENTH PYROTECHNY	572

Brilliant Fire and Chinese Fire	583

Furniture of Rockets of Serpents Maroons Stars	591

Optical Pyrotechny	597

On Register Thermometers	626

On the Velocity of a Cannon Ball which will enable it to circulate like	638

Problems respecting Fountains and Sounds	678

The Divining	687

Carbonic and Nitrous Acid	696

PART TWELFTH	713

Of certain tricks performed by means of the Magnet	734

Of Alkalies Fixed	735

Dissertation on the Philosophers Stone on Aurum Potabile and on Palingenesy	796

Of the different kinds of Phosphorus both natural and artificial	803

Methods of making different sorts of artificial Phosphorus	818

Titre	Recreations in Science and Natural Philosophy: Dr. Hutton's Translation of Montucla's Edition of Ozanam
Auteur	Jacques Ozanam
Rédacteur	Edward Riddle
Éditeur	William Tegg and Company, 1851
Original provenant de	l'Université de Californie
Numérisé	24 sept. 2014
Longueur	826 pages

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