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Rohault's System of natural philosophy / [Jacques Rohault] ; 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:
1735
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Credit: Rohault's System of natural philosophy / [Jacques Rohault] ; 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 Tranflator’s Preface. H E feveral Editions which thisTreatife has pafied thro', both in French and Latin> are a fufficient Teftimony how acceptable and ufeful it has been to the World,' and a juft Apology for my tfariflating it into Englijh. I fhall not therefore trouble the Reader with any par¬ ticular Account either of the Excellency of the Subject, the Abilities of the Author, or the Method he has proceeded in, but refer them, all to be judged of by the Book it felf: Only as to the Notes the Reader is defined to take Notice, that therein is a full AnfWer to fuch Objections made againft the Author as fee’m not to have any juft Foundation, and a great many Things in Natural Philofophy, which have been fince found out by the Pains and Induftry of later Philofophers, are here fe- leCted from the beft Writers 5 and there are A 2 alfo