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Propostas para formar por subscripçaõ na metropole do Imperio britannico huma instituiçaõ publica : para derramar, e facilitar a geral introducçaõ das uteis invenções mechanicas, e melhoramentos, e para ensinar por meio de cursos de lições phylosophicas, e experiencias, aos communs fins da vida appresentadas pelos administradores da instituiçaõ traduzidas do Inglez de ordem de Sua Alteza real

by: Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814

Publication date: 1799

Topics: Royal Institution of Great Britain, Learned institutions and societies -- Great Britain, Imprint 1799

Publisher: Lisboa: : Na Off. de Antonio Rodrigues Galhardo, impressor de serenissima casa do Infantado.

Collection: JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: Portuguese

46, [2] pages ; 20 cm (4to)

Dated and signed on page 22: Brompton-Row, 4 de março de 1799. Rumford

Although this work was proportedly authored by António Carlos Ribeiro de Andrade, it is a translation, by Andrade, of the author's: Proposals for forming by subscription, in the metropolis of the British Empire, a public institution for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments, the application of science to the common purposes of life, first printed in London, 1799

The institution planned for here was established as the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1800

Signatures: A-F⁴ (A1 verso, F4 blank)

Coat of arms of Portugal on title page

Purchase; 18-444