Gale's cabinet of knowledge or miscellaneous recreations: containing moral and philosophical essays, propositions, natural and metaphysical maxims, And Observations on select subjects of general Utility; with a series of easy, entertaining, and interesting mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments: including the most celebrated card deceptions ever exhibited. Together with about Seven Hundred Serious, Comic, and Humorous Queries, Paradoxes, &c. &c. with pertinent and ingenious answers, comprising the essence of The Lady's, Gentleman's, and Carnan's Diaries,-Martin's Philosophical Magazines,-Ozanam and Hooper's Recreations, &c. &c. (illustrated with copper-plate engravings.) To which is added a great number of originals. Likewise an appendix; containing various propositions tending to prove light and heat two distinct beings; With some curious definitions in optics

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Gale, John
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London printed for J. Wallis No. 46, Pater-Noster-Row, (by P. Norbury, New-Brentford) 1800, M,DCCC. [1800]
Edition:	Third edition, with many valuable additions
Subjects:	Amusements / Early Works To 1800 Literary Recreations / Early Works To 1800 Scientific Recreations / Early Works To 1800 Tricks / Early Works To 1800
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/0580000100?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa