Volume 1

Rohault's System of natural philosophy / illustrated with Dr. Samuel Clarke's notes taken mostly out of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophy. With additions [by R. Laughton and C. Morgan]. Done into English by John Clarke.

  • Jacques Rohault
Date:
1723
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Credit: Rohault's System of natural philosophy / illustrated with Dr. Samuel Clarke's notes taken mostly out of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophy. With additions [by R. Laughton and C. Morgan]. Done into English by John Clarke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Translator’* TREFACE. ] alio feveral Things added out of the Qbfcjr- vations of the ancient Writers of Natural Philofophy and Natural Hiftory, where thqy feemed further to explain and illuftrate Mat¬ ters. In all which, to avoid Repetition, Grati¬ tude demands that the Reader Ihould know that there are a great many Things owing to the learned andinduftriousDr. Laughton, and to the Reverend Mr. Morgan. The former of which communicated a great many Things difperfed throughout the whole Book, and correded Abundance of Errours: And fix whole Diflertations are owing to the latter, viz,. Thofe concerning The Laws of com¬ municating Motion in elaftick Bodies ; The Explication of the Forces of the mechanick Towers, which are contained in this firft Part, and thofe concerning the Celerity with which heavy Bodies defeend, the Motion of Troje El ties, the Motion of Tendulums, and that concerning the Rainbow, which are contained in the following Parts. The fourth Part of this Work is but fhort, and not very perfed 5 wherefore it is thought more advifeable to refer the Read¬ er to later Writers of Anatomy who have handled that Subjed clearly and fully, than to tranferibe lo many Particulars. I hope the Whole will be agreeable and acceptable* THE