18 results filtered with: Scientific recreations
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Recreations in mathematics and natural philosophy ... / First composed by M. Ozanam ... Lately recomposed, and greatly enlarged, in a new edition, by the celebrated M. Montucla. And now translated into English, and improved with many additions and observations, by Charles Hutton ... With near one hundred quarto plates.
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717.Date: 1803- Books
Die natürliche Magie : aus allerhand belustigenden und nützlichen Kunststücken bestehend / zusammengetragen von Johann Christian Wiegleb ; mit Kupfern.
Wiegleb, Johann Christian, 1732-1800.Date: 1782-1786
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Scientific recreations in philosophy and mathematics. Including arithmetic, acoustics, electricity, magnetism, optics, pneumatics; together with amusing secrets in various branches of science: the whole calculated, to form an agreeable and improving exercise for the mind / [William Enfield].
Enfield, William, 1741-1797.Date: 1825
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Nouvelles récréations physiques et mathématiques. Contenant ce qui a été imaginé de plus curieux dans ce genre et qui se découvre journellement; auxquelles on a joint les causes, leurs effets, la manière de les construire, et l'amusement qu'on en peut tirer pour étonner et surprendre agréablement / [Guyot].
Guyot.Date: 1799- Books
A rich cabinet with variety of inventions, unlock'd and open'd for the recreation of ingenious spirits at their vacant hours : being receits and conceits of severall natures and fit for those who are lovers of natural and artificial conclusions : as also variety of recreative fire-works both for land, air, and water, and fire-works of service for sea and shore : whereunto is added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks / collected by J.W.
White, John, -1671.Date: 1668- Books
Hungerford Hall, Strand. Animal magnetism. Soirées Lassaigne. Wonderful experiments, M. Lassaigne, (the first magnetiser in Europe) & Mdlle. Prudence, (the best clairvoyante known) every evening, at eight o'clock precisely (except Thursday).
Lassaigne, Auguste.Date: [1851]
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Recreations in science and natural philosophy / Dr. Hutton's translation of Montucla's edition of Ozanam. The present new edition ... is revised by Edward Riddle ... who has corrected it to the present era, and made numerous additions ... Illustrated by upwards of four hundred woodcuts.
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717.Date: 1844- Books
Deliciæ physico-Mathematicæ, oder Mathemat: und philosophische Erquickstunden : darinnen sechshundert dreÿ und sechzig, schone, liebliche und annehmliche Kunststücklein, Auffgaben und Fragen, auss der Rechenkunst, Landtmessen, Perspectiv, Naturkündigung, und andern Wissenschafften genomen, begriffen seindt ... am Tag gegeben durch M. Danielem Schwenterum.
Schwenter, Daniel, 1585-1636.Date: 1651-1653
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Letters on natural magic, addressed to Sir Walter Scott, bart / By Sir David Brewster.
Brewster, David, 1781-1868.Date: 1834- Books
Recreations in mathematics and natural philosophy ... / First composed by M. Ozanam ... Lately recomposed, and greatly enlarged, in a new edition, by ... M. Montucla. And now translated into English, and improved with many additions and observations, by Charles Hutton.
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717.Date: 1814- Books
A companion to the 'Endless amusement', containing nearly 400 interesting experiments in various branches of science. Including electricity, galvanism, hydraulics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, chemistry, optics, magnetism, mathematics, &c., &c. : to which are added, Recreations with cards, and a collection of ingenious problems the whole so clearly explained, as to be within the reach of the most limited capacity.
Date: [1825?]- Books
Joco-seriorum naturae et artis, sive magiae naturalis centuriae tres / [Anon.] Accessit diattibe [sic] de prodigiosis crucibus [by A. Kircher].
Schott, Gaspar, 1608-1666.Date: [1666]
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Johann Nikolaus Martius Unterricht in der natürlichen Magie : oder zu allerhand belustigenden und nützlichen Kunststücken; völlig umgearbeitet / von Johann Christian Wiegleb.
Wiegleb, Johann Christian, 1732-1800.Date: 1779
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Rational recreations, in which the principles of numbers and natural philosophy are clearly and copiously elucidated by a series of easy, entertaining, interesting experiments. Among which are all those commonly performed with the cards / By W. Hooper.
Hooper, William, M.D.Date: 1787- Books
Récréations mathématiques composées de plusieurs problèmes plaisans & facetieux d'arithmetique, geometrie, astrologie, optique, perspectiue, mechanique, chymie, & d'autres rares & curieux secrets : plusieurs desquels n'ont iamais esté imprimez ... le tout representé par figures.
Date: 1629
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Mathematical recreations: or, a collection of many problems extracted out of the ancient and modern philosophers: as, secrets and experiments in arithmetick, geometry, cosmography, horologiography ... &c. ... / Written first in Greek and Latin, lately compil'd in French by Henry van Etten [pseud.], and now in English ... Whereunto is added the description and use of the double horizontal dyal, and the general horological ring: invented and written by William Oughtred.
Leurechon, Jean, 1591-1670.Date: 1674- Books
Popular scientific recreations in natural philosophy, astronomy, geology, chemistry, etc., etc., etc. / translated and enlarged from "Les récréations scientifiques" of Gaston Tissandier.
Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899.Date: 1885
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Récréations mathématiques et physiques ; qui contiennent les problémes et les questions les plus remarquables, et les plus propres à piquer la curiosité, tant des mathématiques que de la physique; le tout traité d'une maniere à la portée des lecteurs qui ont seulement quelques connoissances légeres de ces sciences / par M. Ozanam.
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717.Date: 1790