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LECTURE I.

O/E. xperimentalPhilosophy in general.O/'/^NewtonianMethodWRulesof Philosophizing. Of Matter in gene-rals and its ejsential Properties. Of theChemical Elements or Principleso/’Natural Bodies. Of Attraction andRepulsion. The Attraction of Cohe-sion. Of the Cohesion of various Sortsof Bodies. The Phœnomena of C a p i l l a r yTubes. Of a Vacuum. The Rationaleof various Process of Chemistry, andother Arts. Of the principal Properties ofElectrical Attraction and Repulsion.(^Magnetism and its Laws ; of the va-rious Properties of the Magnet in relationto the Needle ; its Variation ^^Incli-nation.

T HE Business of Experimental Phi-losophy (the Subject of this Courseof Lectures) is to enquire into andinvestigate the Reason and Causes of thevarious Appearances (or PhcenosnenaJ ofNature; and to make the Truth or Proba-bility thereof obvious and evident to theVol. I f B Senses,