Tracts on mathematical and philosophical subjects: comprising, among numerous important articles, the theory of bridges, with several plans of recent improvement ; also the results of numerous experiments on the force of gunpowder, with applications to the modern pratice of artillery ; in three volumes, Volume 1 |
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