James WattDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 241 pages |
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Page 177
... Lunar Society , whose members were all devoted to the pursuit of knowledge and mutually agreeable to one another . Besides Watt and Boulton , there were Dr. Priestley , discoverer of oxygen gas , Dr. Darwin , Dr. Withering , Mr. Keir ...
... Lunar Society , whose members were all devoted to the pursuit of knowledge and mutually agreeable to one another . Besides Watt and Boulton , there were Dr. Priestley , discoverer of oxygen gas , Dr. Darwin , Dr. Withering , Mr. Keir ...
Page 178
... Lunar Society , because the time of our meeting was near the full - moon - in order , as he elsewhere says , to have the benefit of its light in returning home . Richard Lovell Edgeworth says of this distinguished coterie : By means of ...
... Lunar Society , because the time of our meeting was near the full - moon - in order , as he elsewhere says , to have the benefit of its light in returning home . Richard Lovell Edgeworth says of this distinguished coterie : By means of ...
Page 202
... Lunar Society , was in advance of his age , and more or less in accord with Burns , who was then astonishing his country- men . Perhaps he had forstalled Dean Stanley's advice in his rectorial address to the students of St. Andrew's ...
... Lunar Society , was in advance of his age , and more or less in accord with Burns , who was then astonishing his country- men . Perhaps he had forstalled Dean Stanley's advice in his rectorial address to the students of St. Andrew's ...
Page 203
... Lunar Society of Birmingham was intensely interested . At one of the meetings in the summer of 1788 , held at her father's house , Mrs. Schimmelpenniack records that Mr. Boulton presented to the company his son , just returned from a ...
... Lunar Society of Birmingham was intensely interested . At one of the meetings in the summer of 1788 , held at her father's house , Mrs. Schimmelpenniack records that Mr. Boulton presented to the company his son , just returned from a ...
Page 204
... Lunar Society , was entered , but the timely arrival of troops saved it from destruction . The members of the Lunar Society , or the " lunatics , " as they were popularly called , were especially marked for attack . The mob cried ...
... Lunar Society , was entered , but the timely arrival of troops saved it from destruction . The members of the Lunar Society , or the " lunatics , " as they were popularly called , were especially marked for attack . The mob cried ...
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