Three lectures on muscular motion : read before the Royal Society in the year MDCCXXXVIII : as appointed by the will of Lady Sadleir, pursuant to the design of her first husband William Croone ... being a supplement to the Philosophical transactions for that year ... / by Alexander Stuart.

  • Stuart, Alexander, 1673-1742.
Date:
1739
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Credit: Three lectures on muscular motion : read before the Royal Society in the year MDCCXXXVIII : as appointed by the will of Lady Sadleir, pursuant to the design of her first husband William Croone ... being a supplement to the Philosophical transactions for that year ... / by Alexander Stuart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ^hat celebrated body^ as if they were imployed about ufelefs /peculations, or trifling amufements,. But experience has floewn, how many ufeful arts and Jciences have received confiderable improvements by the difcoveries of this, and other focieties of the like kind, now eflablifhed in feveral countries abroad, by their example j though many of the praBifers perhaps may not know from whence thofe impnove- ments had their fir ft rife. An enumeration of par- ticulars in proof of this would be too prolix, and improper for this place j efpecially as the moft learned in all arts and fciences are not ignorant of this truth. This method of difquifltion therefore I have en- deavot^red to obferve in the following Ledures, which coyitain fever al experiments, not made by any one, before, that I know of But how far the explana¬ tions of them are clear, the obftrv at ions juft, and the conclufions neceffary and new, muft be left to the judicious and candid reader. Whatever is here advanced contrary to received opinions, or the pofttions of fome great and learned men, being founded upon experiments, I hope may be held to confift with the great and juft regard due to the memory of thofe, who by their incomparable works have Jo Well dejerved of the learned world, and of mankind in general j and who, I am per- . fuaded, were fuch lovers of truth themfelves, that they , would have been'pieafed with its appear¬ ance, whencefoever it had arifen. In thefe Ledures the following propofitions are offered to be proved by experiments, and confirmed by obfervations of faBs. [ b 2 ] I. That