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

  • Walker, A. (Adam), 1730 or 1731-1821.
Date:
[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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    O F A \ COURSE OF L E C T U R E SL, O N NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY, By A, W A L K E r: THE defign of this Courfe is to convey clear ideas of the gene- ral order and oeconomy of nature ; and of the laws by which It is regulated. For Philofophy is a fcrutiny into thofe firft inftltutes by which the Almighty was pleafed to create, govern, and regulate the univerfe ; and fets before the inquifitive mind the progrefs made by human enquiry into this fublime knowledge. The method by which this fcrutiny will be profecuted is in the follov/ing order, viz, LECTURE L On the general Properties of Aiatter* I. ]gXORDfUM on the benefits and improvements arifing from philofophical enquiry in arts, trade, agriculture; the know- ledge of the Deity, and ourfelves. 2. Matter, what?—Proved to be made up of particles infinitely fmall, infinitely divifible, inert, and impenetrably hard, by many new and curious experiments. 3. How the four fimpje elements of air, water, fire, and earth, in various combinations, form all the bodies or fubflances in nature. 4. How the principle called the AttratTion of Cohcfion un-t es the particles of matter into mafies of Hone, metals, wood, &c.—How this principle, differing in its mode and degree, gives that infinite variety in the bardncfs, texture, colour, flexibility, &c. of bodies 5. Capillary attraaion (a fpecifs of cohefion) accounts for vege- tation, fecretion, digeftion, abforption, &c. illuftrated by various experiments. 6. Original particles of matter of the fame weight, proved byr Wie dcfcsiii; of 5 guinea and feather in vacuo, ifc.