Recreations in mathematics and natural philosophy

containing amusing disserations and enquiries concerning a variety of subjects the most remarkable and proper to excite curiosity and attention to the whole range of mathematical and philosophical sciences : the whole treated in pleasing and easy manner, and adapted to the comprehension of all who are the least initiated in those sciences: viz. arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, mechanics, optics, acoustics, music, astronomy, geography, chronology, dialling, navigation, architecture, pyrotechny, pneumatics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, magnetism, electricity, chemistry, palingenesy, &c

by Jacques Ozanam