The American oracle : comprehending an account of recent discoveries in the arts and sciences, with a variety of religious, political, physical, and philosophical subjects, necessary to be known in all families, for the promotion of their present felicity and future happiness / by the Honourable Samuel Stearns, L.L.D. and doctor of physic ; astronomer to the provinces of Quebec and New-Brunswick ; also to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the state of Vermont, in America.

  • Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809.
Date:
MDCCXCI [1791]
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Credit: The American oracle : comprehending an account of recent discoveries in the arts and sciences, with a variety of religious, political, physical, and philosophical subjects, necessary to be known in all families, for the promotion of their present felicity and future happiness / by the Honourable Samuel Stearns, L.L.D. and doctor of physic ; astronomer to the provinces of Quebec and New-Brunswick ; also to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the state of Vermont, in America. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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