Author:John Theophilus Desaguliers

John Theophilus Desaguliers
(1683–1744)

John Theophilus Desaguliers

Works

Original works

• 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

• 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

• "Desaguliers, John Theophilus," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.