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St. Petershourg [Petrograd], 1859 



15154 Sammlung del- Beobachtungen von Sternbedeckungen wiihrend der totalen 



Mondfinsternisse 1884 Oct. 4. und 1888 Jan. 28., 2 vols. 4to. sewn, 3.9 6rf ib., 1885-9 



15155 STUKELEY (William, m.d., f.r.s.. Rector of St. George the Martyr's, Queen Square) The 

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15156 STURGEON (William, ^rfrfiscomie) Scientific Researches, Experimental and Theoretical, 

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15158 : The Annals of Electricity, Magnetism, and Chemistry; and Guardian of Ex- 

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 these Departments of Philosophy, Vols. I— III and VI— VII (Oct. 1836— April '39 and Jan.— 

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15159 Vols. I— III only (Oct. 1836— April, '39), with'43 plates, and woodcuts, 3 vols. 



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' The tirst journal exclusively devoted to electrical subjects in this country. He supported this with immense industry 

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15100 On the Distribution (and Retention) of Magnetic Polarity in Metallic Bodies, 



with 2 plates, 2 pamphlets Svo. (pp. 26), seivn, As 1832 



15161 STURM (Johann Ohristoph, U?iiv. Altdorff) Collegium Experimentale, sive Curiosum, 

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15162 Liber Idem ; cum Parte Secunda, in qua porr6 Prsesentis Aevi Experimenta et Inventa 



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This important work contains not only a description of the chief di.'scoveries of the time, but also an account of the 

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 of the double-acting air-pump, erroneously a.scribed to Francis Hauksbee, p.r.s. He was also the first who replaced the 

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There is also an interesting account of the aerostatic project.'* of France.sco Lana {q. v. ante), which he followed up by 

 similar experiments. 



15164 Mathesis Enucleata : or, the ELEMENTS of the Mathematicks, made English by 



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15165 Mathesis Juvenilis, accessit Consilium de Mathesi in Scholarum Trivalium et 



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15166 STYFFE (Knut) The Elasticity, Extensibility, and Tensile Strength of Iron and 

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15167 SULLIVAN [hie SULIVAN] (Sir Richard Joseph, f.r.s., f.s.a.) View of Nature, in 

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