An account of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophical discoveries : in four books / by Colin Maclaurin ; Published from the author's manuscript papers, by Patrick Murdoch.

  • Colin MacLaurin
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1775
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Credit: An account of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophical discoveries : in four books / by Colin Maclaurin ; Published from the author's manuscript papers, by Patrick Murdoch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAP. V. Conclufions from the foregoing oh- fervations 94 BOOK II. Of the theory of motion, or rational me-* chanics. C H A P. I. Of fpace, time, matter, and motion j 02 CHAP. II. Of the laws of motion, and their ge¬ neral corollaries 118 i J. . - . ■ . . . . .. CHAP. III. Of the mechanical powers 154 CHAP. IV. Of the collifion of bodies 192 CHAP. V. Of the motion of pro] e Biles in vacuo; of the cycloid3 the motion of a pendulum in it 207 BOOK III. Gravity demonftrated by analyfis. ✓ CHAP. I. Of the theory of gravity as far as it appears to have been known before Sir Jfaac Newton 232 CHAP. II. The moon is a heavy body, and gravi¬ tates towards the earth in the fame manner as ter- refir id bodies 254 /<- * ' - • ‘ :