Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained

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Thomas P. Jones. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained

Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained

Table of Contents

PREFACE

CONVERSATION I. ON GENERAL PROPERTIES OF BODIES

CONVERSATION II. ON THE ATTRACTION OF GRAVITY

CONVERSATION III. ON THE LAWS OF MOTION

CONVERSATION IV. ON COMPOUND MOTION

CONVERSATION V. ON THE MECHANICAL POWERS

CONVERSATION V. CONTINUED. ON THE MECHANICAL POWERS

CONVERSATION VI. CAUSES OF THE MOTION OF THE HEAVENLY BODIES

CONVERSATION VII. OF THE PLANETS

CONVERSATION VIII. ON THE EARTH

CONVERSATION IX. ON THE MOON

CONVERSATION X. ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FLUIDS

CONVERSATION XI. OF SPRINGS, FOUNTAINS, &c

CONVERSATION XII. ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF AIR

CONVERSATION XIII. ON WIND AND SOUND

CONVERSATION XIV. ON OPTICS

CONVERSATION XV. OPTICS—continued. ON THE ANGLE OF VISION, AND THE REFLECTION OF MIRRORS

CONVERSATION XVI. ON REFRACTION AND COLOURS

CONVERSATION XVII. ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE EYE, AND OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS

GLOSSARY

INDEX

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Thomas P. Jones, Mrs. Marcet

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Mrs. B. When you are accustomed to consider the fall of bodies as depending on this cause, it will appear to you as natural, and surely much more satisfactory, than if the cause of their tendency to fall were totally unknown. Thus you understand that all matter is attractive, from the smallest particle to the largest mass; and that bodies attract each other with a force proportional to the quantity of matter they contain.

Emily. I do not perceive any difference between the attraction of cohesion and that of gravitation; is it not because every particle of matter is endowed with an attractive power, that large bodies consisting of a great number of particles, are so strongly attractive?

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