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according Action acts againſt alſo Angle Animals appears APPLICATIONS Arch Ball F becauſe becomes Body called Caſe Cauſe Change Circle common Conſequence conſider continue contrary Degrees of Velocity deſcribe Direction divided eaſily Effect Elaſticity elſe enter equal Example Experiment EXPLANATIONS falls fame Figure firſt Fluid follows Force Friction give given greater happens increaſe it's itſelf Kind known laſt leaſt leſs Line Liquor loſe Manner Maſs Matter Medium meets Metal moſt Motion move muſt Nature never Number Object obſerve Obſtacle Organ Ounces Particles paſs perceive Piece Place Plain Point PREPARATION produced prove Quantity Reaſon receive repreſented Reſiſtance Reſt ſaid ſame ſay ſecond ſee Senſes ſeparate ſeveral ſhall Shock ſhould Side ſmall ſolid ſome Space Spring ſtill ſtriking ſtruck ſuch ſuppoſe Surface themſelves theſe thing thoſe tion touch Uſe Volume Water Weight whole
Populaire passages
Pagina 45 - But when the Neck is fo narrow, that there is not room for a free Paflage at the fame time, for two Matters that run contrary Ways ; that is, for the Liquor to go in> and for the Air to go out ; it muft be brought about fucceflively.
Pagina vii - In matten of Natural Philosophy we must not pay an absolute submission to even the greatest authority ; much less ought we to be slaves to our own prejudices, but to embrace the truth wherever we find it, and not affect to be Newtonians at Paris, or Cartesians at London."— ¿M6W Hallet.
Pagina 157 - Birds are obliged from Time to Time, to regain that Height by a Flight in the common way, which they have infenfibly loft, and...
Pagina 62 - Egg will not go out again as long as it is retained by the Preflure of the Atmofphere. But when this...
Pagina 102 - ... after extolling the sense of touch as superior to all the other senses, and as deserving to be considered the genus under which the others should be included as subordinate species, makes this remark — " Besides, it has " this advantage over them, to be at the same " time both active and passive : for it not only " puts it in our power to judge of what makes an " impression upon us, but likewise of what
Pagina xiii - Specimens of it may be feen in .the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences for the Years 1740 and 1741, where J have only omitted what chiefly concerns the Workman.
Pagina 260 - Spring, which a<5ts one way againft the Body of the Rocket, and the other way againft a Volume of Air, which does n&t yield fo faft as it.is impelled.
Pagina 200 - Excentric impact is when the directions of the motion, of the centers of gravity of the bodies in collision make an, angle with one another. Direct impact is when the direction of the moving body is perpendicular to the surface on which it impinges. Oblique impact is when the direction of the moving body makes some angle otb<jr than a right one with the surface on which it impinges.
Pagina 165 - Kind, which very confiderably refifts the Motion of the Carriage. It is not fo when every Wheel turns in the ufual Manner about it's Axis ; for then it cxpofes it's different Parts to the Plain it is to run over.
Pagina vii - I take nothing upon their bare Word, except what I find to be confirmed by Experience.
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Lectures in Experimental Philosophy Eighteenth century collections online |
| Auteur | abbé Nollet (Jean Antoine) |
| Uitgever | S. Austen, 1748 |
| Lengte | 278 pagina's |
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