A COURSE OF Experimental Philofophy. BY J.T. DESAGULIERS, LL.D. F. R. S. VOL. I. Adorn'd with Thirty-two COPPER-PLATES. THE SECOND EDITION CORRECTED. LONDON: Printed for W. INNYS, T. LONG MAN and T. SHEWELL, and C. M.DCC.XLV. TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS FREDERIC, Prince of WALES, &c. SIR, T O contemplate the Works of GOD, to discover. Causes from their Effects, and make Art and Nature fubfervient to the Neceffities of Life, by a Skill in joining proper Causes to produce the most ufeful Effects, is the Bufinefs of a Science, the Grounds and Principles of which, I have the Honour to lay at Your ROYAL HIGHNE s s's Feet. I have prefum'd to do this, Philofophy in all Ages having been thought worthy the Confideration of Princes; for the greatest and best, who have been handed down to us by Hiftorians, under the most amiable and glorious Characters, have diftinguish'd themselves by their Attainments in it, and their Encouragement of all Endeavours to advance and improve it. Amongst these I may juftly reckon his late MAJESTY, who was, and his present MAJESTY, who is, the Patron of a Society, erected for the Advancement of Natural Knowledge, of which one of their Royal Predeceffors was the Founder. |