An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical DiscoveriesGeorg Olms Verlag, 1748 - 392 pages |
Contents
An Account of the Life and Writings of the Author | i |
BOOK I | 3 |
CHA P II Of the fyftems of the ancient philofophers | 24 |
CHA P III Of the modern philofophers before Des Cartes | 42 |
CHA P IV Of the philofophical principles of Des Cartes the emenda | 64 |
Conclufions from the foregoing obfervations | 90 |
CHA P II Of the laws of motion and their general corollaries | 112 |
CHA P III Of the mechanical powers | 147 |
and the parallaxes of the planets | 255 |
CHA P IV Of the general gravitation of matter | 274 |
CHA P V Of the quantity of matter and denfity of the fun | 288 |
CHA P II Shewing how gravity produces fome fmall irregularities | 300 |
CHA P IV Of the motion of the moon | 323 |
Of the path of a fecondary planet upon an immoveable plane | 335 |
CHA P VI Of the figure of the earth and the preceffion of the equi | 344 |
Of the ebbing and flowing of the fea | 351 |
Of the collifion of bodies | 183 |
Gravity demonftrated by analyſis | 221 |
CHA P II The moon is a heavy body and gravitates towards the earth | 242 |
CHA P VIII Of the comets | 368 |
CHA P IX Of the Supreme Author and Governor of the Universe | 377 |
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