Conversations on Natural Philosophy. In Which the Elements of That Science are Familiarly Explained. Illustrated with Plates. By the Author of Conversations on Chemistry, &c. with Corrections, Improvements, and Considerable Additions, in the Body of the …

viii, 220 pp. Contents include conversations: On General Properties of Bodies; On the Attraction of Gravity; On the Laws of Motion; On Compound Motion; On the Mechanical Powers; Astronomy--Causes of the Motion of the Heavily Bodies; On the Planets; On the Earth; On the Moon; Hydrostatics--On the Mechanical Properties of Fluids; Of Springs, Fountains, &c.; Pneumatics--On the Mechanical Properties of Air; On Wind and Sound; On Optics; On Refraction and Colours; On the Structure of the Eye, and Optical Instruments; Glossary.