Recreations in science and natural philosophy: Dr. Hutton's translation of Montucla's edition of Ozanam [electronic resource]

Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717, Montucla, Jean Etienne, 1725-1799, Hutton, Charles, 1737-1823, Riddle, Edward, 1788-1854, Crosby, Thomas Boor, Sir, 1830-1916 former owner, St. Thomas's Hospital. Medical School Library former owner, King's College London · 1844 · London, printed for Thomas Tegg... · 12 pictures

A nineteenth-century British popular science compendium, Recreations in science and natural philosophy, translated by Charles Hutton from Montucla's edition of Ozanam and expanded by Edward Riddle, printed in London in 1844 for a general readership interested in experiments and recreational mathematics. Its pictures are plain black-and-white line engravings of geometric diagrams, a pair of hinged levers, and a clock-face style dial with numbered divisions, offering a designer clean, schematic linework and compass-and-ruler diagram motifs.

Chemistry · Scientific recreations · Physics

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