The young gentleman's mechanicks Containing The more Useful and Easy Elements of Mechanicks, more properly so called, of Staticks, and Hydrostaticks. By Edward Wells, D. D. Rector of Cotesbach in Leicestershire.

Similar Items

• Nouveau manuel de mécanique appliquée à l'industrie
  Published: (1838)
• Hydrostatical and pneumatical lectures by Roger Cotes A. M. Late Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge: Published with notes by his successor Robert Smith LL. D. Master of Mechanicks to His Majesty.
  by: Cotes, Roger, 1682-1716
  Published: (1738)
• The hydrostaticks, or, The weight, force, and pressure of fluid bodies, made evident by physical, and sensible experiments : together vvith some miscellany observations, the last whereof is a short history of coal, and of all the common, and proper accidents thereof, a subject never treated of before /
  by: Sinclair, George, d. 1696
  Published: (1672)
• An introduction to a general system of hydrostaticks and hydraulicks, Philosophical and Practical. Wherein The most reasonable and advantageous Methods of raising and conducting Water, for the watering Noblemens and Gentlemens Seats, Buildings, Gardens, &c. are carefully (and in a Manner not yet publish'd in any Language) laid down. Containing in General A Physico-Mechanical Enquiry into the Original and Rise of Springs, and of all the Hypotheses relating thereto; as also the Principles of Water-Works, and the Draughts and Descriptions of some of the best Engines for raising and distributing Water, for the Supply of Country Seats, Cities, Towns corporate, &c. Deduc'd from the Theory of Archimedes, Gallileo, Torricelli, Boyle, Wallis, Plot, Hook, Marriotte, Desaguliers, Derham, Hawksbee, and others. Reduc'd to Practice by Vitruvius, Bockler, de Caus, and other Architects amongst the ancient Romans, Italians, French, Flemmings, and Dutch, and much improv'd by later Practice and Experience. Illustrated and Explain'd by Sixty Copper Cuts, done by the best Hands, of the Principles which tend to the Explanation of the whole, and of rural Grotesque, and cheap Designs for Reservoirs, Cataracts and Cascades of Water, Canals, Basins, Fountains, &c. Collected from the best of the Italian and French Designs (together with some new ones of the Author's own Invention) few of which have ever appear'd in Books of Hydrostaticks, &c. In Two Volumes. By Stephen Switzer.
  by: Switzer, Stephen, 1682-1745
  Published: (1729)
• The hydrostaticks, or, The weight, force, and pressure of fluid bodies made evident by physical and sensible experiments : together with some miscellany observations, the last whereof is a short History of coal ... /
  by: Sinclair, George, d. 1696
  Published: (1672)