THE NEWTONIAN SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY. Adapted to the Capacities of…

THE NEWTONIAN SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY. Adapted to the Capacities of Young Gentlemen and Ladies, and familiarized and made entertaining by Objects with which they are intimately acquainted: being the Substance of Six Lectures read to the Lilliputian Society, By Tom Telescope, A. M. And collected and methodized for the Benefit of the Youth of these Kingdoms, By their Old Friend Mr. Newbery, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard. Who has also added a Variety of Copper-Plate Cuts to illustrate and confirm the Doctrines advanced. The Fourth Edition. by ‘Tom Telescope.’ < >
  • Another image of THE NEWTONIAN SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY. Adapted to the Capacities of Young Gentlemen and Ladies, and familiarized and made entertaining by Objects with which they are intimately acquainted: being the Substance of Six Lectures read to the Lilliputian Society, By Tom Telescope, A. M. And collected and methodized for the Benefit of the Youth of these Kingdoms, By their Old Friend Mr. Newbery, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard. Who has also added a Variety of Copper-Plate Cuts to illustrate and confirm the Doctrines advanced. The Fourth Edition. by ‘Tom Telescope.’
  • Another image of THE NEWTONIAN SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY. Adapted to the Capacities of Young Gentlemen and Ladies, and familiarized and made entertaining by Objects with which they are intimately acquainted: being the Substance of Six Lectures read to the Lilliputian Society, By Tom Telescope, A. M. And collected and methodized for the Benefit of the Youth of these Kingdoms, By their Old Friend Mr. Newbery, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard. Who has also added a Variety of Copper-Plate Cuts to illustrate and confirm the Doctrines advanced. The Fourth Edition. by ‘Tom Telescope.’
  • Another image of THE NEWTONIAN SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY. Adapted to the Capacities of Young Gentlemen and Ladies, and familiarized and made entertaining by Objects with which they are intimately acquainted: being the Substance of Six Lectures read to the Lilliputian Society, By Tom Telescope, A. M. And collected and methodized for the Benefit of the Youth of these Kingdoms, By their Old Friend Mr. Newbery, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard. Who has also added a Variety of Copper-Plate Cuts to illustrate and confirm the Doctrines advanced. The Fourth Edition. by ‘Tom Telescope.’

THE NEWTONIAN SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY. Adapted to the Capacities of Young Gentlemen and Ladies, and familiarized and made entertaining by Objects with which they are intimately acquainted: being the Substance of Six Lectures read to the Lilliputian Society, By Tom Telescope, A. M. And collected and methodized for the Benefit of the Youth of these Kingdoms, By their Old Friend Mr. Newbery, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard. Who has also added a Variety of Copper-Plate Cuts to illustrate and confirm the Doctrines advanced. The Fourth Edition.

London: T. Carnan and F. Newbery, jun, 1770. [Price One Shilling.] 125 [140] pages. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and five other full-page engravings. Original Dutch floral boards. 120 x 77mm. Sometime expertly re-backed; ownership names of blank recto of frontispiece; Sydney Roscoe’s catalogue plate tipped on to endpaper. Contained in a folding cloth gilt box. A very good copy. This title was first published in 1761.

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