Volume 1

A philosophical enquiry into the nature, origin, and extent, of animal motion, deduced from the principles of reason and analogy ... / [Samuel Farr].

  • Samuel Farr
Date:
1771
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Credit: A philosophical enquiry into the nature, origin, and extent, of animal motion, deduced from the principles of reason and analogy ... / [Samuel Farr]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by their denfity. This is true in general, univerfal principle ; the action of winds, the action of common elaftic air, and the action of vapours, may be excluded from this general tule. Sir Ifaac Newton him- with regard to the] powers of Attraction and Gravitation ; yet entertained many conjec- tures concerning the means by which they took place, or by which bodies firft began to move. But what he imagined, could never admit of mechanical reafoning, and upon this account was not admitted as juft. It was not however lefs true for that reafon. It was beyond the enquiry of ma- thematics, and experiment was the only teft