Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Amusement, Display, Instruments, Education, Astronomy, Pneumatics, Light

    Questions the claim that 'an evening with an Orrery or some stale Dissolving Views, or a nice long-winded lecture about Optics or Pneumatics, the Air-Pump or the Diving-Bell, is now far more to the taste of the rising generation than the frivolous and uninstructive pleasures of the stage'.