A dictionary of mechanical science, arts, manufactures, and miscellaneous knowledge. . Comprising the pure sciences of mathematics, geometry, arithmetic, algebra,&c.; - the mixed sciences of mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, optics, and astronomy; - experimental philosophy; - the fine arts; - agriculture, and its implements; - manufactures, and their various processes; - commerce and domestic economy; - natural history; - with biographical and historical notices of eminent men, who have adorned science by their inventions and discoveries. Illustrated with many hundred engravings. Seventh edition. By Alexander Jamieson, Ll.D.
Alexander Jamieson
Category
Books
Date
1831
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Townend, Cumbria
NT 3074931
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v.([2],2,iv,544;[2],545-1066p.), [87] plates . ill.., maps . fol.. Binding: Both vols. in 19th century brushed calf bindings, with blind Greek key roll pattern borders; spine title labels: 'Dictionary of mechanical science'.
Makers and roles
Alexander Jamieson