Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Considered in It's Present State of Improvement: Describing in a Familiar and Easy Manner, the Principal Phenomena of Nature ...

Hindmarsh, 1794

LECTURE XII	1

Prefence of water in the atmoſphere	12

Of the origin of ſprings and rivers	19

Of the faltnefs of the fea	26

LECTURE XIII	33

To make ice	48

An abstract of Mr De Lucs General View of Chemiſtry	56

Of water in a ſtate of vapour	70

Of the artificial eye	292

Of diftinct and indiftinct vifion	304

Of the pupil of the eye c	314

Rules for the choice of spectacles	324

Of couched eyes	330

Of the fhortfighted	336

Of apparent magnitude	344

Of viſion by images	353

Of the rainbow	385

Of the feparation of the rays of light occafioned by	393

Of fits of eafy reflection and tranfmiffion	401

Mr Delavals account of permanent colours	410

LECTURE XXI	428

General obfervations on the operations of light	444

Of the inflection of light	454

LECTURE XXII	476

Of refracting teleſcopes	483

Of the Galilean teleſcope	492

Of the firſt aberration of convex lenfes	501

Of the fecond aberration of ditto	507

Of the construction c of teleſcopes made with dif	513

Of achromatic teleſcopes	522

Of the Gregorian teleſcope	529

LECTURE	537

Of microscopes	538

Of the fingle microſcope	546

Of the folar microſcope	552

Title	Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Considered in It's Present State of Improvement: Describing in a Familiar and Easy Manner, the Principal Phenomena of Nature ... Volume 2 of Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Considered in It's Present State of Improvement: Describing in a Familiar and Easy Manner, the Principal Phenomena of Nature, George Adams
Author	George Adams
Publisher	Hindmarsh, 1794
Original from	Austrian National Library
Digitized	30 May 2018

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Of veficular and concrete vapour	86

LECTURE	94

LECTURE XV	139

Definitions	152

Of refraction	158

Of the force and intenſity of light	164

Of refraction at a plane furface	171

Of refraction at a concave furface	180

Of glafs lenfes	186

Of burningglaffes	193

Of the fcioptric ball	201

Further remarks on convex lenfes	207

To find the focal length of lenſes	215

LECTURE XVI	224

Of convex mirrors	233

To find the focal length of fpeculums	244

Of viſion by a convex fpeculum Page	250

LECTURE XVII	259

A defcription of the eye	268

Of the figure repreſenting the eye	286