BY THE SAME AUTHOR: ECLECTIC NOTES; Or, Discussions on Religious Topics by the Members of the Eclectic Society of London, from A.D. 1798 to 1813. Second Edition. Price 10s. 6d. Some of the Members at this time were the Revs. Richard Cecil, John Venn, Thomas Scott, John Newton, Josiah Pratt. PUBLISHED BY MESSRS. NISBET & Co. PARAPHRASE OF THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN, According to the Hora Apocalyptice of the Rev. E. B. ELLIOTT. Price 2s. 6d. PUBLISHED BY W. MACINTOSH. A TREATISE ON ATTRACTIONS, LA PLACE'S FUNCTIONS, AND THE FIGURE OF THE EARTH. Fourth Edition. Price 6s. 6d. The Second Edition of the author's work on 'Mechanical Philosophy' has been some years out of print, and has been succeeded by different treatises, by various authors, on its several subjects. The treatise here advertised is an expansion of that part of the Mechanical Philosophy which treated of Attractions and the Figure of the Earth. The author has endeavoured to supply the want of a work on a subject of great importance and high interest La Place's Co-efficients and Functions, and the calculation of the Figure of the Earth by means of his remarkable analysis. No student of the higher branches of Physical Astronomy should be ignorant of La Place's analysis and its results--'a calculus,' says Airy, the most singular in its nature, and the most powerful in its application, that has ever appeared.' He has also entered fully into the geodesic method of finding the Earth's figure, and introduced many propositions bearing upon that subject. PUBLISHED BY MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. |