Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's, Physices elementa mathematica, experimentis confirmata sive introductio ad philosophiam Newtonianam; Tom. 1

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[11.] LIBRI I. PARS II. De Actionibus Potentiarum.
[12.] LIBRI I. PARS III. De Motibus, Potentiarum Actionibus, Variatis.
[13.] LIBRI I. PARS IV. De Viribus inſitis, & Colliſione corporum.
[14.] LIBRI II. PARS I. De Gravitate & Preſſione Fluidorum.
[15.] LIBRI II. PARS II. De Motu & Reſiſtentia Fluidorum.
[16.] LIBRI II. PARS III. De Aëre & aliis Fluidis Elaſticis.
[17.] PHYSICES ELEMENTA MATHEMATICA, EXPERIMENTIS CONFIRMATA. LIBER I. Pars I. de Corpore in genere. CAPUT I. De Scopo Phyſices & Regulis philoſophandi.
[18.] Definitio 1. & 2.
[19.] Definitio 3.
[20.] Definitio 4.
[21.] Regula 1.
[22.] Regula 2.
[23.] Regula 3.
[24.] CAPUT II. De Corpore in genere.
[25.] CAPUT III. De Extenſione, Soliditate, & Vacuo.
[26.] Experimentum 1.
[27.] Experimentum 2.
[28.] CAPUT IV. De Diviſibilitate Corporis in infinitum, & parti-cularum Subtilitate.
[29.] SCHOLIUM. De Materiæ Diviſibilitate
[30.] Infinitum finito contineri.
[31.] De Spirali logaritbmicâ, & bujus menſurâ.
[32.] De infinitorum Inæqualitate
[33.] De infinitorum claſſibus.
[34.] SCHOLIUM 2. De partium Subtilitate.
[35.] CAPUT V. De cobæſione partium, ubi de Duritie, Mollitie, Fluidi-tate, & Elaſticitate agitur.
[36.] Definitio 1.
[37.] Definitio 2.
[38.] Definitio 3.
[39.] Definitio 4.
[40.] Experimentum 1.
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