Volume 1

A compendium of natural philosophy, being a survey of the wisdom of God in the Creation / [John Wesley].

  • John Wesley
Date:
1842
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    A COMPENDIUM OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. INTRODUCTION. OF THE GRADUAL IMPROVEMENT OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. 1. The Order observed in this Treatise.—2. The Method of philosophising among the Hebrews and Egyptians.— 3. Among the Greeks :—The Philosophy of Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle.—4. The different Method pursued by the four Greek Sects.—5. The Philosophy of the Schoolmen.— 6. The Revival of Philosophy by Lord Bacon.—7. Greatly promoted by Philosophical Societies.—8. The general Im- provement of Philosophy in modern times.—9. The Philo- sophy of the Heavens.—10. The Philosophy of Life and Growth.—11. The Philosophy of Material Substance gene- rally.—12. The Progress of Chemical Science.—13. The Chemical Properties of Matter.—14. The general Action of Matter.—15. Modifications of this Action in Heat, Electri- city, Galvanism, Magnetism, Motion, and Animal Life.—16. Of Spirits and Divine things. 1. Natural Philosophy treats both of God himself, and of his creatures, visible and invisible. Of these I purpose to speak in such a maimer, as to proceed from the consideration of Man, through all the orders of things, as they are farther and farther removed from us, to God, the centre of all knowledge. (I mean, of visible things :—of
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