An essay on the first principles of natural philosophy. Wherein the use of natural means, or second causes, in the oeconomy of the material world, is demonstrated from reason, experiments of various kinds, and the testimony of antiquity : in four books illustrated with copper-plates / by the Reverend William Jones.

  • Jones, William, 1726-1800.
Date:
1762
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Credit: An essay on the first principles of natural philosophy. Wherein the use of natural means, or second causes, in the oeconomy of the material world, is demonstrated from reason, experiments of various kinds, and the testimony of antiquity : in four books illustrated with copper-plates / by the Reverend William Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Chap. IV. An experiment to co?tJirm and illujirate what has been advanced in the foregoing chapter: with fome obfer- - vat ions on heat and cold. — — - p. 156. Chap. V. Of the phyfecal caufe of repulfion ; particularly^ as this principle is applied to the elafticity of the air, . - - p. 163. Chap. VI. The application cohefion, as an unmechanical principle^ ferves only to keep us' in ignorance. - This is proved by a plain example. —. -7-^' — p. 172. Chap. VII. The conclufeon from all the foregoing arguments and experiments. — — — p. 178. Book IV. The judgment of antiquity on the Jyftem of nature: together with the fentiments of fome modern au^ thors of the heft, repute. Chap. I. 'Some general obfervatiom on the learning of the ancients. — — — — . p. 187. Chap. II. Teflimonies from the principal authors of profane antiquity^ among the Greeks. p. 196. Chap. III. Sotne obfervations on the remains of the Chaldaic philofophy. — — — — p. 208. Ch AP. IV. Some extraEls from two authors among the La¬ tins, Pliny and Seneca : with fome reflexions on the De- mocritic fyfiem. — — — ^ p. 212. Ch AP. V. The fentiments of the mofl eminent of the modern writers fubjoined to thofe of the ancients. p. 218. Ch AP. VI. The judgment of the holy fcripture concerning the fyfeem of nature. — — — p. 132.