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Commentator: William Whiston
A COURSE OF Mechanical, Magnetical, Optical, Hydrostatical, AND Pneumatical EXPERIMENTS.
To be perform'd by FRANCIS HAUKSBEE; and the Explanatory Lectures read by WILLIAM WHISTON, M. A.
MECHANICKS.
That the Velocity of Falling Bodies is as the Times of Falling, and the Lines of Descent in the Duplicate Proportion of those Times.
An Instrument to measure the Force of Falling Bodies.
Experiments concerning the Sliding, Rolling, and Falling of Bodies.
That Bodies will ascend as high, as whence they fall by the last Velocity impress'd, when all Obstacles are removed.
That Bodies by a compound Force move in a Diagonal Line.
The general Principle of Mechanicks established upon this Method.
Experiments to demonstrate the different Effects of the same Weight of Power acting in different Directions at the same Point of any Engine.
The Resolution of Forces into those of other Directions.
All the various Kinds of Levers explain'd.
The Power of the Wheel or Axis in Peritrochio explain'd.
The Wedge, with the Method of comparing its Force, deduced from Experiments.
The Screw, with the manner of computing its Force.
A Compound Engine.
The Method of computing the Force of the Air on the Sails of Windmills, and of Ships; and of Water on Water-Wheels, and on the Rudder of a Ship.
The most considerable Objections against the Motion of the Earth, answered from this Experiment.
That the Line described by a Projectile is a Parabola.
The Experiments upon which the Art of Gunnery does depend, most exactly perform'd.
The Description and chief Properties of the Cycloid, and the Application of Cycloidal Cheeks for regulating the Vibrations of Pendulums.
An Experiment to shew the Analogy between the Swings of a Pendulum and the Waves of the Sea.
Experiments concerning the Expansion of Metals by Heat.
Experiments concerning the Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces of Solid and Fluid Bodies in Motion.
Experiments in order to estimate the Centrifugal Forces of Solid Bodies.
MAGNETICKS.
The Form or Position of Filings of Iron at the Poles and Equator of a Loadstone.
Magnetick Power acts thro' all Bodies but Iron.
The Attraction of different, and Repulse of corresponding Poles.
The manner of touching and untouching of Needles.
The Law of Magnetick Attraction discover'd.
The Terrestrial Magnetism consider'd.
The Application of the Dipping-Needle to the Discovery of the Longitude and Latitude of Places by Land and Sea.
OPTICKS.
The Method of tracing the reflected Rays of Light from Plain, Convex, Concave, and Cylindrical Superficies, with all their wonderful Properties and Uses, shew'd and explain'd.
The Sines of the Angles of Incidence and Refraction, shewn to be in a constant Proportion to each other.
An Instrument to measure the Refraction of Fluids.
The Method of tracing the Refracted Rays of Light thro' Plain, Convex, and Concave Superficies.
The Dissection of the Eye.
The Explication of Vision by the naked Eye, deduced from Experiments.
Several Kinds of Microscopes and Telescopes, with the Manner of applying them to their respective Objects; together with a Specimen of the Uses of such Microscopes and Telescopes.
A Multiplying Glass.
The Magick Lanthorn.
Experiments concerning the blending and Production of Colours by Motion.
HYDROSTATICKS.
Advertisement.
An Explication of the First PLATE.
MECHANICKS. 2
An Explication of the Second PLATE.
MECHANICKS. 3
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