An account of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophical discoveries : in four books / By Colin Maclaurin. Published from the author's manuscript papers, by Patrick Murdoch.

  • MacLaurin, Colin, 1698-1746.
Date:
1750
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Credit: An account of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophical discoveries : in four books / By Colin Maclaurin. Published from the author's manuscript papers, by Patrick Murdoch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The CONTENTS. C H A P. Y. Conclufions from the foregoing oh- fervations 94 BOOK II. Of the theory of motion, or rational me¬ chanics. CHAP. I. Of fpace ^ time, matter, and motion 102 r C H A P. II. Of the laws of motion, /Mr neral corollaries 118 CHAP. III. Of the mechanical powers 154 C H A P. IV. Of the collijion of bodies 192 C H A P. V. Of the motion of projectiles in vacuo; of the cycloid, and the motion of a pendulum in it 207 BOOK III. Gravity demonftrated by analyfis. C H A P. I. Of the theory of gravity as far as it ap~ pears to have been known before Sir lfaac Newton 232 C PI A P. II. 'The moon is a heavy body, and gra¬ vitates towards the earth in the fame manner as ter» reftrial bodies 254 CHAP. III. Of the folar fyflem: and the paral¬ laxes of the planets and fixed ft ars 2 68 CHAP.