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Excerpt from Painting Popularly Explained: With the Practice of the Art, and Historical Notices of Its Progress
The sciences here illustrated are, in the main, Astronomy and Meteorology; Geology and Paleontology; Physical Geography; Sound, Light, and Heat; Magnetism and Electricity, - the latter with special attention to the great marvel of our times, the Elec tro-magnetic Telegraph. I hope, at no very distant period, to ex tend the curiosities to another volume, to include branches Of Natural and Experimental Science which are not here presented.
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