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1817 · réf. 086096 — Edinburgh Scotland: The Royal Society Of Edinburgh 1817. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 29cm x 23cm. This is a printer bound copy awaiting insertion into a proper binding. The pages are uncut and there are plates at the rear for insertion into the text block with instructions of where to insert. 14 sections with the following headings- I/On The Action of Transparent Bodies upon differently coloured Light by David Brewster II/ Description of a new Darkening Glass for Solar Observations by David Brewster. III/ Observations On The Fire-Damp of coal mines with a Plan for Lighting Mines by John Murray. IV/ On The Lines that divide each semidural Arc into six equal parts. by W.A. Cadell V/ On The Origins of Cremation by Rev. John Jamieson. VI/ Additional Communications respecting the Blind and Deaf Boy by John Gordon. VII/ On The education of James Mitchell the boy born deaf and blind by Henry dewar. VIII/ On the optical properties of Muriate of Soda etc by David Brewster. IX/ On a new optical and mineralogical property of Calcareous Spar by David Brewster. X/ On The ancient geography of central and eastern Asia by Hugh Murray. XI/ An Analysis of sea water by John Murray. XII/ Elementary demonstrations of the compositions of pressures by Thomas Jackson. XIII/ Account of the remarkable case of Margaret Lyall who continued in a state of sleep nearly six weeks. by Rev James Brewster. XIV/ A general formula for the analysis of mineral water. by John Murray. The Royal Society Of Edinburgh paperback