Syllabus of a course of lectures on natural and experimental philosophy / by A. Walker.

  • Walker, A. (Adam), 1730 or 1731-1821.
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[between 1790 and 1799]
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Credit: Syllabus of a course of lectures on natural and experimental philosophy / by A. Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    4;. Why the moon appears fo much larger at her rifing than 0t the meridian ;—why {he rifes in the harveft full every evening near die fame time for a week together;—why (he fliines for a fortnight together without fetting, every lun;ition, on the frigid zones. 5. How the earth and moon affeft each other, and tufn round rhe common center of gravity ; how tides are occafioned ; the cu-rents of the gulf of Florida^ Gibralfnr, C5V. the fmall tides of the Wejl-hidies ; rapid and liigh tides of the Thames and Severn; the cquinoAtal tides, and the tides of the air. 6. Prefumption that the moon is a world; difiertation on her motion, feas, continents, mountains, and how the earth mull appear to her inhabitants. LECTURE XIT. Jft, onomy. I. pTch-maic^ Tychonic, Copernican fyftems, what. ^ 2. Planetary motion by Defcartes* vortices exploded. 3. 'Ne'-jotoman doctrine of centrifugal and centripetal motions eX' phiined by curious experiments on the whirling tables, and applied fo the explanation of planetary motion ;—Kepler s problem—and •he correfpondence of areas and times folved by them. 4. DiiTertation on, and probable caufe of, the Flood—deduced fi-om the fnells and filh-bones found on mountains—from the ar- rangement of mountains—the breaks in mines—the dipping ftrata cf the earth, &c. 5. On the grand orrery, and tranfparent ditto, will be a defcrip- rion of each planet in the folar fyllem, its motions, appearance, and moons; in the courfe of which will be given a familiar doc- trine of parallax—how the diilances of the heavenly bodies are fo'jnc'—Ahat advantages the world may derive from obfervations tjn the tranfit of Venus ■—what is meant by the equation of time — precefiion of the equinoxes—the longitude how found by Jupiter'* iatcllites, the retrograde motion of the planets, ^rc. 6. Dialvtation on comets, nnd the univerfe of fyflems, 7. Recapitulation of the whole. J71 Epitome of thefe Le^uresy to ajpji the memory, fold in the rs'jin, price zs-—Alfo^ kValker's Tour through Europe, price 6s. — ano:hcr to the Northern Lakes in l'jc)l, price ^.s.— and a Treatife en Snioky CiiimnieS'. Nollemen, or others, may ha-je this Ccurfe read at their ozun I'oujes (if at a proper difiance from the apparatus) on eafy tsnns—Ufe tf the Globes taught, l3c. N. B. Tylany of the 7ncdels jr. 'tntioncd in this Syllabus are too cumbrous to tra-vel, and maylefeen at Mr. WALKERSs, George-^reet, Hano-uer- f^uare; nvhere the Leciures during Winter are read every Mondaj^^ W'tdnefday, and Friday, at Tiueh'e clack.