Errors in paging: p. 149, 209, 210 and 380 numbered 194, 201, 209 and 179 respectively.--Pp. 211-276 omitted in pagination.--Note at foot of p. 209 [i.e. 210]: "That two presses being employed in printing these tracts, has caused a chasme in these pages"--Foliation of plates is also irregular: Plates I-III followed by Tab. I-XIII; Tab. II-III of second sequence are on same leaf
Dedication: To Sir Isaac Newton
Contents on t.p.: I. The present deficiency of natural philosophy ... with the methods of rendering it more certain and beneficial.--II. The nature, motion and effects of light ...III. An hypothetical explication of memory; how the organs made use of by the mind in its operation may be mechanically understood.--IV. An hypothesis and explication of the cause of gravity ...--V. Discourses of earthquakes ...VI. Lectures for improving navigation and astronomy
Index: p. [573-583]
Errata: p. [583]
Publishers' advertisements: p. [584]
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Paton estate Note: Tab. XII bound out of order, facing p. 536. Binding: recent paper boards, morocco spine label. From the library of Sir William Paton; his signature on front endpaper. Stamp on t.p.: Ex-Biblioth. Universitatis Aberdonensis
Copy 2 Note: p. 461-552 wanting and partly supplied in MS, apparently in the hand of Samuel Northcote whose signature is on t.p.
