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Excerpt from The Elements of Natural or Experimental Philosophy, Vol. 4 of 4 Were the motions of the celefiial objects uniform and regular, the calculation of their afpeéts wouid be accomplilhed with facility. But the apparent irregularities of thofe objects, render the invefiiga tion of their movements, and the calculations for their appeatances, extremely intricate; nor could the fcience have attained the prefent much im proved Rate, had it not been aflified' by all the fublimefl branches of mathematics, and by the ad mirable mechanical improvements of later times fueh as time-keepers, telefcopes, quadrants, and other inflruments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.