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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    I SB ] •of the other fyftems ? How much too big is this idea for the human imagination ! By the late improved telefcopes thirty thoufand of thefe funs have been found more than the naked eye can perceive ! --- were our glafies hill better, we fhould, no doubt, find more — his not improbable there may be ftars fo diftant that their light has not reached the earth fince the creation. Many of thofe ftars appear double, and coloured green, blue, red, violet, ;&c. Let us on the wings of imagination then launch into •the immenfity of fpace, and behold Jyflem beyond fyjlern, above us, below us> to the eaft, the zveji^ the norib, the fouth ! Let us go fo far as to fee our fun but a ftar among the reft, and our fyftem itfelf as -a point, and we fhaH but even then find ourfelves on the confines of creation 1 How inadequate then muft be the utmoft liretch of human faculties, to a conception of that amazing Deity who made and governs the whole ! Should not the narrow prejudices, the litflenefs of human pride foften into hu* mility at this thought ? E X P l A-