A Course of Mechanical, Magnetical, Optical, Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Experiments / perform'd by Francis Hauksbee, and the Explanatory Lectures read by William Whiston, M.A.

by William Whiston; Francis Hauksbee

A
COURSE
OF
Mechanical, Magnetical, Optical, Hydrostatical,
AND
Pneumatical EXPERIMENTS.

To be perform'd by Francis Hauksbee; and the Explanatory Lectures read by William Whiston, M. A.

MECHANICKS.

1st Day. Sir Isaac Newton's Three Laws of Motion, or Nature, demonstrated by Experiments.

That the Velocity of Falling Bodies is as the Times of Falling, and the Lines of Descent in the Duplicate Proportion of those Times.

An Instrument to measure the Force of Falling Bodies.

Experiments concerning the Sliding, Rolling, and Falling of Bodies.

That Bodies will ascend as high, as whence they fall by the last Velocity impress'd, when all Obstacles are removed.

That Bodies by a compound Force move in a Diagonal Line.