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    Volume 4
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    June 2015
    August 2014
    ISBN:
    9781107280045
    9781108070409
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107280045
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.88kg, 704 Pages
    • Subjects:
    History of Science, Physics and Astronomy, General and Classical Physics, Engineering: General Interest, General Science
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
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    Subjects:
    History of Science, Physics and Astronomy, General and Classical Physics, Engineering: General Interest, General Science
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    Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
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    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 4 contains a variety of Robison's encyclopaedia articles: on electricity and on magnetism, various pieces on the physics of sound and music, and assorted others.

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