Author : Society For Useful Knowledge Diffusion
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 2018-02-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780666333926
Book Description
Excerpt from Natural Philosophy, Vol. 3: Astronomy, History of Astronomy, Mathematical Geography, Physical Geography, and Navigation; With an Explanation of Scientific Terms and an Index IN presenting to the public this third and concluding volume of Natural Philosophy, it seems requisite to od'er a few remarks concerning the plan adopted for the arrangement of the originally disjointed portions. To those who would have wished that it had been more systematic, it may be observed that the several Treatises were composed so that the subjects might, as much as possible, be individually perfect, and independent of one another; and this necessarily tended, not only to occasion repetitions when collected into volumes, but, in some degree, to break the thread which would have united them in one general science. The object of Natural Philosophy is the investigation of those principles which are to be considered as inherent in matter, and by the agency of which the changes in the relative positions, modifications, and internal combinations of the several masses (or separate bodies) are produced. These are. 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.