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

The Description and chief Properties of the Cycloid, and the Application of Cycloidal Cheeks for regulating the Vibrations of Pendulums.

An Experiment to shew the Analogy between the Swings of a Pendulum and the Waves of the Sea.

Experiments concerning the Expansion of Metals by Heat.

7th—The Laws of Motion in the Collision of Hard and Elastick Bodies.

Experiments concerning the Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces of Solid and Fluid Bodies in Motion.

Experiments in order to estimate the Centrifugal Forces of Solid Bodies.

MAGNETICKS.

8th Day. Attractive and Directive Powers of Loadstones.

The Form or Position of Filings of Iron at the Poles and Equator of a Loadstone.

Magnetick Power acts thro' all Bodies but Iron.