Miscellanea Curiosa: Being A Collection Of Some Of The Principal Phenomena In Nature, Accounted For By The Greatest Phil

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revoluti... Read more

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++<sourceLibrary>Cambridge University Library<ESTCID>P003239<Notes>Title repeated as caption and running titles. Vol. 3 extended title changes to: Miscellanea Curiosa: containing a collection of curious travels, voyages, and natural histories of countries, as they have been delivered to the Royal Society. Imprint on title page varies; v. II has imprint: London: Printed by J.B. for Jeffery Wale, at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-yard; J. Senex, and C. Price, next the Fleece Tavern in Cornhill, 1706; punctuation in v. III varies slightly. Plates include landscapes, ruins and Chinese characters With contents in each volume. Essays on scientific topics such as water, tides, light, mathematics, and the sun; with advertisements for scientific instruments; vol.3 includes descriptions of foreign lands such as Turkey, China and Virginia, their cultures, agriculture, climate, and appearance. Vol. I includes a letter from Isaac Newton.<imprintFull>London England]: printed by J. B. for Jeffery Wale, at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-yard; and John Senex, in Hemlock-Court, near Temple-Bar, 1705-1707. <collation>3 v., plates: ill., map, diagr.; 19 cm (4 ) Less