explaining their construction, adjustments, and use: with an appendix, and tables

[6 catalogues in 1 vol.]

including most of the instruments employed in drawing, for assisting the vision, in surveying and levelling, in practical astronomy, and for measuring the angles of crystals: in which their construction, and the methods of testing, adjusting, and using them, are concisely explained

exhibiting the fraudulent sophistications of bread, beer, wine, spirituous liquors, tea, coffee, cream, confectionery, vinegar, mustard, pepper, cheese, olive oil, pickles, and other articles employed in domestic economy, and methods of detecting them

in which a method is laid down, whereby these useful sciences may be greatly improved; to which is added, a fourth letter; setting forth, a discovery of an easy method to secure ships bottoms from worms

wherein is declared not onely those laws as they are now in force, but also in the original and beginning of forests

designed to illustrate in the most easy and natural manner, the phaenomena of the earth and heavens, ant to shew the correspondence of the two spheres : with great variety of astronomical and geographical problems

containing observations on the various forms of vaults; on the taking down and rebuilding London Bridge : and on the principles of arches: illustrated by extensive tables of bridges : also containing the principles of pendent bridges, with reference to the properties of the catenary, applied to the Menai Bridge : and a theoretical investigation of the catenary

ex Aristotelis Ethic. Nicom. libri secundi cap. 1.2.3.4.5.&6. potissimum desumptae