In 1855, John Sheepshanks,[[314]] so well known as a friend of Art and a public donor, reprinted this tract, in fac-simile, from his own copy; twenty-seven copies of the original 12mo size, and twelve on old paper, small 4to. I have an original copy, wanting the plate, and with "Price sixpence" carefully erased, to the honor of the book.[[315]]
It is not known whether Hulls actually constructed a boat.[[316]] In all probability his tract suggested to Symington, as Symington[[317]] did to Fulton.)
THE NEWTONIANS ATTACKED.
Le vrai système de physique générale de M. Isaac Newton exposé et analysé en parallèle avec celui de Descartes. By Louis Castel[[318]] [Jesuit and F.R.S.] Paris, 1743, 4to.
This is an elaborate correction of Newton's followers, and of Newton himself, who it seems did not give his own views with perfect fidelity. Father Castel, for instance, assures us that Newton placed the sun at rest in the center of the system. Newton left the sun to arrange that matter with the planets and the rest of the universe. In this volume of 500 pages there is right and wrong, both clever.
A dissertation on the Æther of Sir Isaac Newton. By Bryan Robinson,[[319]] M.D. Dublin, 1743, 8vo.[[320]]
A mathematical work professing to prove that the assumed ether causes gravitation.
MATHEMATICAL THEOLOGY.