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ELEMENTARY PHYSICS; an Introductiou to the Study of 

 Natural Philosophy. By Robert Hunt, Professor of Me- 

 chanical Science at the Government School of !Mines, Author 

 of ' Poetry of Science,' ' Researches on Light,' and ' Handbook 

 to the Great Exhibition.' Illustrated with a coloured frontis- 

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CONTENTS, 



Chapter I. General Properties of Pon- 

 derable Matter. 



„ II. General Laws of Motion. 



„ III. Laws of Slightly Elastic 

 Fluids. 



,, IV. Laws of Elastic Fluids. 



Chapter V. Sonorous Movement of 



Bodies. 

 ,, VI. Primary Pheuomena of 



Electricity. 

 „ VII. Heat, or Caloric. 

 „ VIII. Light and Actinism. 



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POPULAR MINERALOGY ; a Famihar account of Minerals and 



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PANTHEA, THE SPIRIT OF NATURE. By Robert Hunt, \ 



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Author of ' The Poetry of Science.' One vol. 8vo, cloth. \ 



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THE POETRY OF SCIENCE ; or, Studies of the Physical Phe- | 



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