{"product_id":"2940148787969","title":"A Course of Mechanical, Magnetical, Optical, Hydrostatical and Pneumatical (Illustrated)","description":"1st Day.SIR ISAAC NEWTON's Three Laws of Motion, or Nature, demonstrated by Experiments.\u003cbr\u003eThat the Velocity of Falling Bodies is as the Times of Falling, and the Lines of Descent in the Duplicate Proportion of those Times.\u003cbr\u003eAn Instrument to measure the Force of Falling Bodies.\u003cbr\u003eExperiments concerning the Sliding, Rolling, and Falling of Bodies.\u003cbr\u003eThat Bodies will ascend as high, as whence they fall by the last Velocity impress'd, when all Obstacles are removed.\u003cbr\u003eThat Bodies by a compound Force move in a Diagonal Line.\u003cbr\u003e2d—The Balance and Stilyard, with all their Properties and Uses shewn and explain'd.\u003cbr\u003eThe Method of estimating the Momentum, or Quantity of Motion in any given Body.\u003cbr\u003eThe general Principle of Mechanicks established upon this Method.\u003cbr\u003eExperiments to demonstrate the different Effects of the same Weight of Power acting in different Directions at the same Point of any Engine.\u003cbr\u003eThe Resolution of Forces into those of other Directions.\u003cbr\u003eAll the various Kinds of Levers explain'd.\u003cbr\u003e3d—All the Phænomena of Pulleys, both single and in all their possible Combinations explain'd.\u003cbr\u003eThe Power of the Wheel or Axis in Peritrochio explain'd.\u003cbr\u003eThe Wedge, with the Method of comparing its Force, deduced from Experiments.\u003cbr\u003eThe Screw, with the manner of computing its Force.\u003cbr\u003eA Compound Engine.\u003cbr\u003e4th—An Experiment of Lifting a Weight by a Chain of Inflated Bladders, with its Application to Muscular Motion.\u003cbr\u003eGalilæo's Demonstration concerning the Strength of the Bones, Timber, \u0026amp;c. reduced to Experiment.\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003eExperiments to shew the proportional Advantages of large and small Wheels, in all Sorts of Carriages, as Couches, Waggons, Carts, \u0026amp;c.\u003cbr\u003e5th—An Experiment to shew, that the lateral Motion compounded with the perpendicular Projection, does not alter the Line of Ascent or Descent in the projected Body.\u003cbr\u003eThe most considerable Objections against the Motion of the Earth, answered from this Experiment.\u003cbr\u003eThat the Line described by a Projectile is a Parabola.\u003cbr\u003eThe Experiments upon which the Art of Gunnery does depend, most exactly perform'd.\u003cbr\u003e6th—Experiments concerning Pendulums.\u003cbr\u003eThe Description and chief Properties of the Cycloid, and the Application of Cycloidal Cheeks for regulating the Vibrations of Pendulums.\u003cbr\u003eAn Experiment to shew the Analogy between the Swings of a Pendulum and the Waves of the Sea.\u003cbr\u003eExperiments concerning the Expansion of Metals by Heat.\u003cbr\u003e7th—The Laws of Motion in the Collision of Hard and Elastick Bodies.\u003cbr\u003eExperiments concerning the Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces of Solid and Fluid Bodies in Motion.\u003cbr\u003eExperiments in order to estimate the Centrifugal Forces of Solid Bodies.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lost Leaf Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175730823408,"sku":"2940148787969","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148787969_p0.jpg?v=1765232589","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148787969","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}