Publications of William Watson

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Printed by William Watson

  • Independent Native.. An address to the people of Ireland, on the present alarming state of the kingdom. By an independent native. Dublin: printed by William Watson and Son, 1798. ESTC No. N29431. Grub Street ID 18606.

Author

  • Watson, William. Experiments and observations tending to illustrate the nature and properties of electricity. In one Letter to Martin Folkes, Esq; President, and Two to the Royal Society. By William Watson, F.R.S. London: printed by Jacob Ilive, for the author, MDCCXLV. [1745]. ESTC No. T12248. Grub Street ID 173156.
  • Watson, William. Experiments and observations tending to illustrate the nature and properties of electricity. In one Letter to Martin Folkes, Esq; President, and Two to the Royal Society. By William Watson, F. R. S. The third edition.. London: printed for C. Davis, Printer to the Royal Society, against Gray's-Inn, Holbourn, MDCCXLVI. [1746]. ESTC No. T112414. Grub Street ID 164407.
  • Watson, William. A sequel to the Experiments and observations tending to illustrate the nature and properties of electricity: wherein it is presumed, by a series of experiments expresly for that purpose, that the source of the electrical power, and its manner of acting are demonstrated. Addressed to the Royal Society. By William Watson, F.R.S. The second edition.. London: printed for C. Davis, Printer to the Royal Society, against Gray's-Inn, Holbourn, MDCCXLVI. [1746]. ESTC No. T112415. Grub Street ID 164408.
  • Watson, William. Experiments and observations tending to illustrate the nature and properties of electricity. In one Letter to Martin Folkes, Esq; president, and two to the Royal Society. By William Watson, F.R.S. London: printed for C. Davis, Printer to the Royal Society, against Gray's-Inn, Holborn, MDCCXLVI. [1746]. ESTC No. T12249. Grub Street ID 173167.
  • Watson, William. A sequel to the Experiments and observations tending to illustrate the nature and properties of electricity: ... Addressed to the Royal Society. By William Watson, F.R.S. Dublin: printed by George Faulkner, 1746. ESTC No. N22028. Grub Street ID 11389.
  • Watson, William. Experiments and observations tending to illustrate the nature and properties of electricity. In one Letter to Martin Folkes, Esq; president, and two to the Royal Society. By William Watson, F.R.S. The second edition.. London: printed for C. Davis, Printer to the Royal Society, against Gray's-Inn, Holborn, MDCCXLVI. [1746]. ESTC No. T33848. Grub Street ID 264337.
  • Watson, William. Experiments and observations tending to illustrate the nature and properties of electricity. ... By William Watson, F.R.S. Dublin: printed, for George and Alexander Ewing, 1746. ESTC No. N9543. Grub Street ID 54419.
  • Watson, William. A sequel to the Experiments and observations tending to illustrate the nature and properties of electricity: wherein it is presumed, by a series of experiments expresly for that purpose, that the source of the electrical power, and its manner of acting are demonstrated. Addressed to the Royal Society. By William Watson, F.R.S. London: printed for C. Davis, Printer to the Royal Society, against Gray's-Inn, Holbourn, MDCCXLVI. [1746]. ESTC No. T47469. Grub Street ID 275421.
  • Watson, William. An account of the experiments made by some gentlemen of the Royal Society, in order to discover whether the electrical power would be sensible at great distances. With An Experimental Inquiry concerning the respective Velocities of Electricity and Sound. To which are added, Some further Inquiries into the Nature and Properties of Electricity; communicated to the Royal Society, by William Watson, F.R.S. London: printed for C. Davis, over-against Gray's-Inn Gate, Holborn, 1748. ESTC No. T12252. Grub Street ID 173191.
  • Watson, William. Observations upon the effects of electricity, applied to a tetanus, or muscular rigidity, of four months continuance. In a letter to the Royal Society. By William Watson, M.D. F.R.S. Member of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Madrid, and physician to the Foundling Hospital. London: Printed by W. Richardson and S. Clark, in Fleet-Street, MDCCLXIII. [1763]. ESTC No. T10102. Grub Street ID 154932.
  • Watson, William. Observations upon the effects of lightning, with an account of the apparatus proposed to prevent it's mischiefs to buildings, ... being answers to certain questions proposed, by M. Calandrini, ... to William Watson, ... Read at the Royal Society June 28, 1764. London: printed in the year, 1764. ESTC No. T114068. Grub Street ID 165903.
  • Watson, William. An account of a series of experiments, instituted with a view of ascertaining the most successful method of inoculating the small-pox. By William Watson, M. D. Fellow of the Royal Society, one of the Trustees of the British Museum, and Member of the Royal College of Physicians. London: printed for J. Nourse, Bookseller to His Majesty, MDCCLXVIII. [1768]. ESTC No. T18938. Grub Street ID 224879.
  • Watson, William. An account of a series of experiments, instituted with a view of ascertaining the most successful method of inoculating the small-pox. By William Watson, ... Dublin: printed by John Exshaw, 1768. ESTC No. T229957. Grub Street ID 249773.