Matches in Harvard for { ?s ?p The electrical philosopher. Containing a new system of physics founded upon the principle of an universal plenum of elementary fire, wherein the nature of elementary fire is explain'd, its office pointed out, its extensive influence and utility in explaining many of the most abstruse phenomena of nature shewn, and the grand desideratum in particular which has been hitherto either entirely given up as inexplicable, or else fought after in vain by the most able naturalists, is at length happily obtain'd, viz. the cause of gravity, the cause of cohesion, &c. & c. The greater part of the publication is disposed in the form of a dialogue, as the most familiar method of conveying instruction, and the whole is offer'd to the public by way of supplement to the Philosophical essays lately published by the same author. To which is subjoin'd a postscript containing strictures upon the uncandid animadversions of the monthly reviewers on these essays. By R. Lovett .... }
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- catalog title "The electrical philosopher. Containing a new system of physics founded upon the principle of an universal plenum of elementary fire, wherein the nature of elementary fire is explain'd, its office pointed out, its extensive influence and utility in explaining many of the most abstruse phenomena of nature shewn, and the grand desideratum in particular which has been hitherto either entirely given up as inexplicable, or else fought after in vain by the most able naturalists, is at length happily obtain'd, viz. the cause of gravity, the cause of cohesion, &c. & c. The greater part of the publication is disposed in the form of a dialogue, as the most familiar method of conveying instruction, and the whole is offer'd to the public by way of supplement to the Philosophical essays lately published by the same author. To which is subjoin'd a postscript containing strictures upon the uncandid animadversions of the monthly reviewers on these essays. By R. Lovett ...".