• Letters on Natural Magic; Addressed to Sir Walter Scott, Bart.
• The kaleidoscope : its history, theory and construction. With its application to the fine and useful arts
• The Life of Sir Isaac Newton
• The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler
• The stereoscope : its history, theory, and construction, with its application to the fine and useful arts and to education