Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- On the Arithmetic of Impossible Quantities
- On the Causes which Affect the Accuracy of Barometrical Measurements
- Remarks on the Astronomy of the Brahmins
- On the Origin and Investigation of Porisms
- Observations on the Trigonometrical Tables of the Brahmins
- Theorems relating to the Figure of the Earth
- On the Solids of Greatest Attraction
- On the Progress of Heat in Spherical Bodies
- Account of a Lithological Survey of Schehallien
- On the Naval Tactics of the late John Clerk, Esq.of Eldin
- Plate section
On the Causes which Affect the Accuracy of Barometrical Measurements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- On the Arithmetic of Impossible Quantities
- On the Causes which Affect the Accuracy of Barometrical Measurements
- Remarks on the Astronomy of the Brahmins
- On the Origin and Investigation of Porisms
- Observations on the Trigonometrical Tables of the Brahmins
- Theorems relating to the Figure of the Earth
- On the Solids of Greatest Attraction
- On the Progress of Heat in Spherical Bodies
- Account of a Lithological Survey of Schehallien
- On the Naval Tactics of the late John Clerk, Esq.of Eldin
- Plate section
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- The Works of John Playfair , pp. 31 - 88Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1822