TABLE of CONTENTS,

LECTURE I.

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HE Rules of Philosophizing, 2, 3

The Newtonian Method of Phi-losophy, 4

The Nature of Matter or Substance, 4

The Elements of Natural Bodies, 5

Of Extension, Magnitude, Ratio, &c. ofBodies, 5, 6

Solidity defined, 7, 8

Figurability defined, 8

Of the live Platonic Bodies, 9

Argument for a Vacuum, ibid.

Divisibility of Matter, ad infinitum, ibid.

Mobility defined, 10

Another Proof of a Vacuum, 11

Of the Vis Inertias of Matter, ibid.

Of Attraction and Repulsion in

The general Law of Gravity,

O f the Attraction of Cohesion,

The Laws thereof,

Muschenbroek’s Tables of these Forces,

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