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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9780267977314

Excerpt from The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Vol. 12: Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology Somewhat later he attended to the lectures Of Pierre Prevost on philosophy. Logic from the lips Of this celebrated natural philosopher, the author of the valuable treatise on the equilibrium of caloric, had a powerful influence on his excitable mind. It gave him the habit of acute and clear thinking, and was an ex cellent introduction to the different exact sciences, with the study of which he was employed in the years 1794 and 1795. Physics, the department Of Marc. Aug. Pictet, had more attraction for him than mathematics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.