AMUSING DISSERTATIONS AND ENQUIRIES CONCERNING A
VARIETY OF SUBJECTS THE MOST REMARKABLE AND
PROPER TO EXCITE CURIOSITY AND ATTENTION TO
THE WHOLE RANGE OF THE MATHEMATICAL
AND PHILOSOPHICAL SCIENCES:

The Whole treated in a pleasing and easy Manner, and adapted to
the Comprehension of all who are the least initiated

M. OZANAM, of the ROYAL ACADEMY of SCIENCES, &c. Lately recomposed, and greatly enlarged, in a new Edition, by the celebrated

M. MONTUCLA.

And now translated into English, and improved with many
Additions and Observations, by

CHARLES HUTTON, LL.D. and F.R.S.
AND PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS IN THE ROYAL
MILITARY ACADEMY, WOOLWICH.

IN FOUR VOLUMES;

WITH NEAR ONE HUNDRED QUARTO PLATES.

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RECREATIONS

IN

MATHEMATICS

AND

NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

AMUSING DISSERTATIONS AND ENQUIRIES CONCERNING A
VARIETY OF SUBJECTS THE MOST REMARKABLE AND
PROPER TO EXCITE CURIOSITY AND ATTENTION TO
THE WHOLE RANGE OF THE MATHEMATICAL
AND PHILOSOPHICAL SCIENCES:

The Whole treated in a pleasing and easy Manner, and adapted to
the Comprehension of all who are the least initiated

M. OZANAM, of the ROYAL ACADEMY of SCIENCES, &c.
Lately recomposed, and greatly enlarged, in a new Edition, by the
celebrated

M. MONTUCLA.

And now translated into English, and improved with many
Additions and Observations, by

CHARLES HUTTON, LL.D. and F.R.S.

AND PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS IN THE ROYAL
MILITARY ACADEMY, WOOLWICH.

IN FOUR VOLUMES;

WITH NEAR ONE HUNDRED QUARTO PLATES.

VOL. II.

44.22