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Lectures on natural and experimental philosophy, Volume 1

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1799

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LECTURE I	1

LECTURE II	40

Of the resistance of air	54

LECTURE III	71

Of the elasticity or spring of the air	83

Of the height of the atmosphere	96

Of hypotheses	103

Of the rarefaction of the	110

To measure great degrees of heat	330

Of fluidity as explained by latent heat	339

LECTURE IX	362

Of the latent fire in steam	375

Of the cold produced by evaporation	381

Of spontaneous evaporation	390

Of ignition	399

Of flame	411

Of smoky chimnies	116

Of condensed	129

Of the common or house pump	138

APPENDIX TO LECTURE IV	148

Of inflammable air or hydrogene	166

To convey air from one vessel to another	212

Of sound	239

On the nature and properties of fire	274

General ideas of fire	286

Of the dilatation of bodies by fire	294

Table of expansion of metals	305

Of true and false philosophy	314

Of latent fire	324

The reality of phlogiston proved	419

LECTURE X	440

Of solution	448

Of odours	454

Method of augmenting the action of fire	466

LECTURE XI	487

Of vital dephlogisticated or oxygene air	509

Of phlogisticated air azotic gas or atmospherical	531

Of nitrous air	540

To impregnate water with fixed air	550

LECTURE	558

Muriatic acid	570

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Title	Lectures on natural and experimental philosophy, Volume 1 Lectures on natural and experimental philosophy, William Jones
Author	George Adams
Editor	William Jones
Edition	2
Published	1799
Original from	Oxford University
Digitized	26 Feb 2009

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