The Elements of Newton's Philosophy

Voltaire

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781136247934
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

This is an exact reproduction of the 1738 edition of Voltaire's The Elements of Sir Issac Newton's Philosophy. An index has been added under supervision of the general editor.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Original Title
• Dedication
• The Preface
• Contents
• INTRODUCTION.
• CHAP. I. What Light is, and in what manner it comes to us.
• CHAP. II. The Property, which Light has of reflecting itself, was not truly known. It is not reflected by the solid Parts of Bodies as vulgarly believed.
• CHAP. III. Of the Property which Light has of refracting in passing from on Substance into another, and of taking a new Course in its Progression.
• CHAP. IV. Of the Form of the Eye, and in what manner Light enters and acts in that Organ.
• CHAP. V. Of Looking-Glasses, and Telescopes : Reasons given by Mathematicians for the Mysteries of Vision ; that those Reasons are not altogether sufficient.
• CHAP. VI. In what Manner we know Distances, Magnitudes, Figures, and Situations.
• CHAP. VII. Of the Cause of the breaking of the Rays of Light in passing from one Medium to another ; that this Cause is a general Law of Nature unknown before Newton ; that the Inflection of Light is also an Effect of the same Cause.
• CHAP. VIII. The wonderful Effects of the Refraction of Light. The several Rays of Light have all possible Colours in themselves ; what Refrangibility is. New Discoveries.
• CHAP. IX. The Cause of Refrangibility ; from which it appears that there are indivisible Bodies in Nature.
• CHAP. X. Proofs that there are indivisible Atoms, and that the simple Particles of Light are Atoms of that kind. Discovereis continued.
• CHAP. XI. Of the Rainbow ; that Phoenomenon a necessary Effect of the Laws of Refrangibility.
• CHAP. XII. New Discoveries touching the Cause of Colours, which confirm the preceding Doctrine, Demonstration that Colours are occasioned by the Denfity and Thickness of the Parts of which Bodies are composed.
• CHAP. XIII. Consequences of these Discoveries. The mutual Action of Bodies upon Light.
• CHAP. XIV. Of the Resemblance between the seven Primitive Colours and the seven Notes in Mufick.
• CHAP. XV. Introductory Ideas concerning Gravity and the Laws of Attraction : That the Opinion of a subtil Matter, Vortices, and a Plenitude, ought to be rejected.
• CHAP. XVI. That the Vortices and Plenitude of Descartes are impossible, and consequently that there is some other Cause of Gravity.
• CHAP. XVII. What is meant by Vacuity and Space, without which there could be neither Gravity nor Motion.
• CHAP. XVIII. Gravitation demonstrated from the Discoveries of Galileo and Newton : That the Moon revolves in her Orbit by the Force of this Gravitation.
• CHAP. XIX. That Gravitation and Attraction direct all the Planets in their Courses
• CHAP. XX. Demostration of the Laws of Gravitation, drawn from the Rules of Kepler : That one of these Laws of Kepler demostrates the Motion of the Earth.
• CHAP. XXI. New Proofs of Attraction. That the Inequalities of the Motion and Orbit of the Moon are necessarily the Effects of Attraction.
• CHAP. XXII. New Proofs and new Effects of Gravitation. That this Power is in every Particle of Matter. Discoveries dependent on this Principle.
• CHAP. XXIII. The Theory of our Planetary World.
• CHAP. XXIV. Of the Zodaical Light, the Comets, and the fixed Stars.
• CHAP. XXV. Of the second Inequalities of the Motion of the Satellites, and the Phoenomena that depend thereon.
• Explanation of hard Words used in this Treatise.
• INDEX