Author:John Theophilus Desaguliers

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John Theophilus Desaguliers
(1683–1744)

British natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer and freemason; elected to the Royal Society in 1714 as experimental assistant to Isaac Newton.

John Theophilus Desaguliers

Works

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Original works

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  • A Sermon Preach’d before the King at Hampton Court (London, 1717)
  • The Newtonian System of the World, the Best Model of Government: An Allegorical Poem (Westminster, 1728)[24]
  • A Course of Experimental Philosophy, 1st edition, Vol I (London, 1734) and Vol II (London 1744)
  • A Dissertation Concerning Electricity (London, 1742)

Translations

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  • Ozanam, Jacques, A Treatise of Fortification, (Oxford, 1711)
  • Ozanam, Jacques, A Treatise of Gnomonicks, or Dialling, (Oxford, 1712)
  • Gauger, Nicolas, Fires Improv’d: Being a New Method of Building Chimneys, (London, 1st ed., 1715; 2nd ed., 1736)
  • Mariotte, Edmé, The Motion of Water and other Fluids, being a Treatise on Hydrostaticks, (London, 1718)
  • ‘sGravesande, Willem, Mathematical Elements of Natural Philosophy Confirmed by Experiment, or an Introduction to Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy (London, 1720)
  • Pitcairn, Archibald, The Whole Works of Dr Archibald Pitcairn (treatise on physic translated from Latin in collaboration with George Sewell) (2nd ed., London, 1727).
  • Vaucanson, Jacques, An Account of the Mechanism of an Automaton, (London, 1742)

Works about Desaguliers

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Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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