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Philosophy in sport made science in earnest

being an attempt to illustrate the first principles of natural philosophy by the aid of popular toys and sports

by John Ayrton Paris

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: FictionJuvenilePrimary source

Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. xiv, 480 pages : 17 cm Anonymous; by J.A. Paris Illustrations by George Cruikshank

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ritual magic and grimoires.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the subject metadata.

    • Magic· via Internet Archive
    • Magic· via Open Library
    • Magic· in subject

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Editions

2 editions cataloged here.

being an attempt to illustrate the first principles of natural philosophy by the aid of popular toys and sports

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1833-01-01T00:00:00ZLondon : Sherwood, Gilbert & PiperEnglishPublic digitized item

being an attempt to illustrate the first principles of natural philosophy by the aid of popular toys and sports

Open Library record

1833Sherwood, Gilbert and PiperEnglishPublic

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Harvard University
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: google
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL13575733W
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