Analysis of a course of lectures on natural and experimental philosophy. Viz. 1. Magnetism, 2. Mechanics, 3. Chemistry, 4 & 5. Pneumatics, 6. Hydrostatics, 7. Electricity, 8. Fortification, 9. Optics, 10. Use of the globes, & c. 11 and 12. Astronomy / by A. Walker.

  • Walker, A. (Adam), 1730 or 1731-1821.
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[1790]
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Credit: Analysis of a course of lectures on natural and experimental philosophy. Viz. 1. Magnetism, 2. Mechanics, 3. Chemistry, 4 & 5. Pneumatics, 6. Hydrostatics, 7. Electricity, 8. Fortification, 9. Optics, 10. Use of the globes, & c. 11 and 12. Astronomy / by A. Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    O F A Courfe -of Lefitures ■ O N NATURAL and EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY. LECTURE I. On the general Properties of Matter. AN hundred and fifty years are fcarce elapfed fince the clouds of prejudice, which had long over- fpread the world, began to clear up, and men 'Were convinced, by cultivating the fciences and attending to nature, that no fanciful conjectures could ever lead them to the true caufes of thofe various phenomena that incefiantly, and every where, meet the obferver’s eye j but that the narrow limits of the human underftanding, confine the courfe of our refearches to one Jingle path, namely, that of experiments or the life of our fenfes. Yet in this fhort period, natural philofophy hath rifen to an high pitch of improvement, and may with truth be faid to have made much greater advances towards perfection iince the experimental method W3S introduced, than ill .the many ages before. B 2'