DESAGULIERS, John Theophilus. A Course of Experimental Philosophy, London: for A. Millar, 1763, 2 volumes, 4°, third edition, 78 folding engraved plates (title of volume II very lightly spotted, light stain at upper margins of a few leaves in volume I), contemporary calf (rubbed, joints broken). (2)

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DESAGULIERS, John Theophilus. A Course of Experimental Philosophy, London: for A. Millar, 1763, 2 volumes, 4°, third edition, 78 folding engraved plates (title of volume II very lightly spotted, light stain at upper margins of a few leaves in volume I), contemporary calf (rubbed, joints broken). (2)

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Contains a proof of the impossibility of perpetual motion and a description of Desaguliers' invention of a machine called the planetarium, "which served to determine the exact distances of the heavenly bodies according to the systems of Newton and Copernicus."

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