A course of mechanical, optical, hydrostatical and pneumatical experiments / To be perform'd by Francis Hauksbee ; and the explanatory lectures read by William Whiston.

[London] : [publisher not identified], [1714?]

3 pages, 20 numbered leaves, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; (4to)

ESTC T114558

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Advertisements on p. 3 & 4 indicate place and the date. Hauksbee is named as the nephew of "the late Mr. Hauksbee, deceas'd" (Francis Hauksbee d. 1713?)

Published (1713?) with title: A course of mechanical, magnetical, optical, hydrostatical, and pneumatical experiments

The 20 leaves of letterpress contain explanatory text of the plates

Divided into Mechanics (6 plates), Opticks (5 plates), Hydrostaticks (3 plates), and Pneumaticks (6 plates). Sections numbered consecutively, plates by section

Head- and tail-pieces.

Copy 1 Note: Apparently earlier (c. 1714) than preceding item (in which errata have been corrected and some additional matter inserted); 2nd prelim. leaf, 'Opticks', and Pls. IV-VI (and text) of 'Pneumaticks' wanting. 'Hydrostaticks' contains ff. 21-2 (altered in ink to 12-13) and p. 23-4; this suggests that it was orginally to have been placed at the end.