Works
- Outlines of mechanical philosophy : containing the heads of a course of lectures, Edinburgh, William Creech, 1781.
- Outlines of a course of experimental philosophy, Edinburgh, William Creech, 1784.
- Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free-Masons, Illuminati and Reading Societies, etc., collected from good authorities, Edinburgh, 1797.
- Outlines of a course of lectures on mechanical philosophy, Edinburgh, J. Brown, 1803.
- Elements of mechanical philosophy : being the substance of a course of lectures on that science, vol 1, Edinburgh, Archibald Constable, 1804.
- The articles "steam" and "steam-engines" written for the Encyclopædia Britannica, edited by David Brewster with notes and additions by James Watt and a letter on some properties, Edinburgh and London, James Ballantyne & Co. 1818.
- A system of mechanical philosophy, Edinburgh, J. Murray (1822) Vol.4.
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