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Discourses on various subjects : read before literary and philosophical societies

Print Book, English, 1852
Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, 1852
History
viii, 276 pages ; 22 cm
2480827
On the mutual relations of the sciences.-On the mammoth, or fossil elephant, discovered at the mouth of the Lena.-On the changes which have taken place in the English language, especially during the three last centuries.-On the science of political economy.-On the last reformation of the calendar in England.-On the general principles of physical investigation.-On the mechanical causes of thunder.-On the paradoxes of vision.-On the theory of wit