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Lives of men of letters & science, who flourished in the time of George III

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Lives of men of letters & science, who flourished in the time of George III

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Alternative: Lives of men of letters and science, who flourished in the time of George III

Alternative: Men of letters in the time of George III

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Series: Landmarks II

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Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868

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Book

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London, C. Knight, 1845-1846

Notes

Vol. 2 published: London : Henry Colburn, 1846.

Vol. 1: xv, [3], 516 p., [8] leaves of plates; v. 2: xi, [3], 516 p., [6] leaves of plates.

Errata: v. 1, p. [2] (2nd group); v. 2, p. [1] (2nd group).

Continues: Landmarks of science.

Contents: [v. 1] Voltaire. Rousseau. Hume. Robertson. Black. Watt. Priestley. Cavendish. Davy. Simson -- v. 2. Johnson. Adam Smith. Lavoisier. Gibbon. Sir Joseph Banks. D'Alembert. Additional appendix to the lives of Sir Joseph Banks and Adam Smith. Note on the lives of Cavendish, Watt, and Black.