Philosophia Britannica, or, A new and comprehensive system of the Newtonian philosophy, astronomy and geography

in a course of twelve lectures, with notes, containing the physical, mechanical, geometrical, and experimental proofs and illustrations of all the principal propositions in every branch of natural science : also a particular account of the invention, structure, improvement and uses of all the considerable instruments, engines, and machines, with new calculations relating to their nature, power, and operation : the whole collected and methodized from all the principal authors, and public memoirs to the present year, and embellish'd with seventy-five copper-plates