OF

SCIENCE AND ART:

BEING A

FAMILIAR INTRODUCTION

ΤΟ

NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND CHEMISTRY:

TOGETHER WITH

THEIR APPLICATION TO A VARIETY OF ELEGANT

AND USEFUL ARTS.

BY JOHN IMISON.

A NEW EDITION,

Considerably enlarged, and adapted to the improved State of Science,
BY THOMAS WEBSTER, SEc. G. S.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

J.

SCATCHERD; J. NUNN;
T. CADELL; S. BAGSTER;
RICHARDSON; BALDWIN,
J. HARDING; SHERWOOD,

PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON;
LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME AND BROWN;
J. BOOTH; J. BOOKER J. MURRAY; J.
CRADOCK AND JOY; BAYNES AND SON;
NEELY AND JONES; G, AND W. B. WHITTAKER; T. TEGG; J. ROBINSON;
AND E. EDWARDS.

1822.

PREFACE

BY THE EDITOR.

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1822

V. I

THE original work by JOHN IMISON, entitled "The School of Arts," was some years ago put into the hands of the present editor, for the purpose of adapting it to the improved state of Philosophical Science. He engaged in the task the more readily, as he conceived that, by giving a general and concise view of the principles of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry, and of their application to the arts, he might be, in some degree, instrumental in promoting the diffusion of science among persons deprived of the advantages of a regular education.

Having had many opportunities, in the course of his profession, of observing the great use of even a small portion of scientific knowledge to a valuable class of the community, mechanics, he kept it particularly in his view to treat the various subjects, so as to render them as easily intelligible as possible; and, in general, to adapt the explanation of them to that class for which the work was intended by the original author.

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