After a brief career at sea, during which he tested Harrison's
chronometer for the Board of Longitude, John Robison (1739-1805)
became lecturer in chemistry at the University of Glasgow. In 1774,
having spent a period teaching mathematics in Russia, he returned
to Scotland as professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh.
Despite his busy schedule, he contributed major articles on the
sciences to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, giving an overview of
contemporary scientific knowledge for the educated layperson. After
his death, these and other pieces of his scientific writing were
edited by his former pupil David Brewster (1781-1868) and were
finally published in four volumes in 1822, with a separate volume
of illustrative plates. This reissue incorporates those plates in
the relevant volumes of text. Volume 4 contains a variety of
Robison's encyclopaedia articles: on electricity and on magnetism,
various pieces on the physics of sound and music, and assorted
others.
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