Supplement to the first edition of ... elements of physics, or natural philosophy / [Neil Arnott].

  • Arnott, Neil, 1788-1874
Date:
1828
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    lias been absorbed in futile disputation and experiment than would have sufficed for accpiiring a competent know¬ ledge ot the whole body of Physics:—now the single section of Physics, which bears on the point, if understood in a moderate degree, would have caused all the difficulties at once to vanish. The circulation of the blood, again, is but one of numerous and scarcely less important subjects in the medical art, to which Natural Philosophy is the easy and only key. A ft' ft/ dliese last reflections are intended as a reply to a second remark which has been made in some quarters with respect to the present volume, viz. that its subject is not of primary importance in medical education. Al¬ though no one who had advanced beyond the mere thres- hold of the study could have held this opinion, the author finds it necessary to advert to it. His-labour in preparing the present volume w'ill have been vain, if by it he prove not to his readers that the magnificent fabric of human o knowledge has Physics or Natural Philosophy for its foundation; Chemistry for the second department, resting on the first; Physiology, or the doctrine of organic Life, for tlie third, resting on the other two, and fully intelligible only to the mind familiar with the others; while the science of Mind crowns the whole. ddie Author had hoped to be able to publish in the course of this autumn the remaining portion of his Ele¬ ments of l^hysics, but the early call for this second edition has prevented him. As the part in question, however, has long been WTitten, tliere is nothing required in regard to it but what he thinks liis leisure will permit him soon to accomplish. 'idle Author might be accounted insensible to the ap¬ probation of his ow'ii profession and of society in general, if he allowed the present occasion to pass without alluding to the rece])tion which liis book has met. (b'atifying indeed has it been to him, and encouraging to the com¬ pletion of his task. With the desire of making the pre¬ sent volume as worthy as he could make it, of the