History of the Royal Society: From Its Institution to the End of the Eighteenth CenturyAbridgement of the philosophical transactions from 1665 to the end of the year 1800. |
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... MECHANICAL PHILOSOPHY CHAP . I. OF ASTRONOMY II . OF OPTICS .. ..239 .311 312 359 . 384 390 III . OF DYNAMICS IV . OF MECHANICS V. OF HYDRODYNAMICS Sect . 1. Of Liquids .. 2. Of Pneumatics . 397 397 410 vii Page . CHAP . VI . OF ...
... MECHANICAL PHILOSOPHY CHAP . I. OF ASTRONOMY II . OF OPTICS .. ..239 .311 312 359 . 384 390 III . OF DYNAMICS IV . OF MECHANICS V. OF HYDRODYNAMICS Sect . 1. Of Liquids .. 2. Of Pneumatics . 397 397 410 vii Page . CHAP . VI . OF ...
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... Philosophical Transactions may be arranged under the five following divisions . I. NATURAL HISTORY . II . MATHEMATICS . III . MECHANICAL PHILOSOPHY . IV . CHEMISTRY . V. MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES . We shall consider each of these divisions ...
... Philosophical Transactions may be arranged under the five following divisions . I. NATURAL HISTORY . II . MATHEMATICS . III . MECHANICAL PHILOSOPHY . IV . CHEMISTRY . V. MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES . We shall consider each of these divisions ...
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... Philosophy , has , like many other Greek words , been very much restricted in its signification by modern philosophers ... mechanical structure of living bodies , and of the science , that various plausible chemical explanations have been ...
... Philosophy , has , like many other Greek words , been very much restricted in its signification by modern philosophers ... mechanical structure of living bodies , and of the science , that various plausible chemical explanations have been ...
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... mechanical philosophy began to lose its novelty , it was in some measure supplanted as a fashionable study by a peculiar species of metaphysics , which was prosecuted with much ardour for a time , till it at length terminated in ...
... mechanical philosophy began to lose its novelty , it was in some measure supplanted as a fashionable study by a peculiar species of metaphysics , which was prosecuted with much ardour for a time , till it at length terminated in ...
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... mechanical philosophy ; which , by means of certain contrivances , have been subjected to mathematical investigation ... Philosophical Transactions , amount to 208 ; and the writers of them are no fewer than 74. * Instead of * The ...
... mechanical philosophy ; which , by means of certain contrivances , have been subjected to mathematical investigation ... Philosophical Transactions , amount to 208 ; and the writers of them are no fewer than 74. * Instead of * The ...
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