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Author: Power, Henry, 1623-1668.
Title: Experimental philosophy, in three books containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magnetical : with some deductions, and probable hypotheses, raised from them, in avouchment and illustration of the now famous atomical hypothesis / by Henry Power ...
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Print source: Experimental philosophy, in three books containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magnetical : with some deductions, and probable hypotheses, raised from them, in avouchment and illustration of the now famous atomical hypothesis / by Henry Power ...
Power, Henry, 1623-1668.
London: Printed by T. Roycroft, for John Martin and James Allestry ..., 1664.
Subject terms:
Science -- Early works to 1800.
Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Microscopy -- Early works to 1800.
Microscopes -- Early works to 1800.
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imprimatur
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The Preface to the Ingenious READER.
illustration
MICROSCOPICAL OBSERVATIONS.
OBSERVAT. I. Of the Flea.
OBSERVAT. II. The Bee.
OBSERVAT. III. The Common Fly.
OBSERVAT. IV. The Gray, or Horse-Fly.
OBSERVAT. V. The Butter-Fly.
OBSERVAT. VI. A Louse.
OBSERVAT. VII. A Wood-Louse, or Wood-Mite.
OBSERVAT. VIII. The House-Spider.
OBSERVAT. IX. The little white Field-Spider with short legs.
OBSERVAT. X. The Field Spider with long Legs.
OBSERVAT. XI. Another Field-Spider.
OBSERVAT. XII. Mites in Cheese.
OBSERVAT. XIII. Mites in Malt-dust and Oatmeal-dust.
OBSERVAT. XIV. Mites, bred amongst Figs.
OBSERVAT. XV. The Mites, in Jujubes and Sebesten's.
OBSERVAT. XVI. The red Mite, found on Spiders.
OBSERVAT. XVII. The Mites or Lice found on Humble-Bees.
OBSERVAT. XVIII. Pond. Mites.
OBSERVAT. XIX. Whey-worms, call'd by some, Wheal-worms, or Hand-worms, or Barrows.
OBSERVAT. XX. The Gloworm or Glassworm.
OBSERVAT. XXI. Common Grasshoppers.
OBSERVAT. XXII. The Ant, Emmet or Pismire.
OBSERVAT. XXIII. Of the little greenish Grasshopper or Lo∣cust, bred upon the backside of green leaves, especially the leaves of Goos∣berries, Sweet-briar, and golden Muos∣ear, in April and beginning of May.
OBSERVAT. XXIV. The yellow Locust.
OBSERVAT. XXV. Of Cuckow-Spitt, and the little Insect bred therein, in May.
OBSERVAT. XXVI. The Cow-Lady, or Spotted Scarabee.
OBSERVAT. XXVII. The Water-Insect, or Water-Spider.
OBSERVAT. XXVIII. The Wasp-like Locust.
OBSERVAT. XXIX. The Sycomore-Locust.
OBSERVAT. XXX. Of the little white Eels or Snigs, in Vineger or Aleger.
OBSERVAT. XXXI. Of the great Black Snail.
OBSERVAT. XXII. Of Lampreys.
OBSERVAT. XXXIII. Corns of Sand, Sugar, and Salt.
OBSERVAT. XXXIV. A small Atom of Quick-silver.
OBSERVAT. XXXV. Mercurial Powders.
OBSERVAT. XXXVI. Of the seven Terrestrial Planets, as the Chymists call them.
OBSERVAT. XXXVII. Ribbans of all sorts of Colours, Silk, Sat∣ten, Silver and mixed.
OBSERVAT. XXXVIII. The small Dust, Powder, or Seeds of the lesser Moon-wort.
OBSERVAT. XXXIX. The Seeds of Wall-Rue, or white Mayden∣hair.
OBSERVAT. XL. Of the Seeds of Strawberries.
OBSERVAT. XLI. Corn Poppy Seeds.
OBSERVAT. XLII. The small Dust or Powder on the Pendents of Lillies.
OBSERVAT. XLIII. The Leafs of several Trees and Plants.
OBSERVAT. XLIV. Pink-pendents.
OBSERVAT. XLV. Of Nettles.
OBSERVAT. XLVI. Gilla Theophrasti.
OBSERVAT. XLVII. A Nitt.
OBSERVAT. XLVIII. A Line drawn upon Paper.
OBSERVAT. XLIX. The Sparks of Flint and Steel.
OBSERVAT. L. Of Hair.
OBSERVAT. LI. Of Aromatical, Electrical, and Magneti∣cal Effluxions.
Some Considerations, Corollaries, and De∣ductions, Anatomical, Physical, and Op∣tical, drawn from the former Experi∣ments and Observations.
A Digression of the Animal Spirits.
Fourth Deduction.
The Fifth COROLLARY▪ Anatomical Considerations about the Eye.
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epigraph
The Second Book.
MERCURIAL EXPERIMENTS.
CHAP. I.
Experiment 1.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
Doctor Pascal's Experiment 2.
Experiment 3.
CHAP. IV.
Experiment 4. That it is not Light onely, which supplies this seeming Vacuity.
CHAP. V.
Experiment 5.
CHAP. VI.
Experiment 6.
Experiment 7.
I shall answer your Second Objection with this following (which may pass for the 9.) Experiment.
CHAP. VII.
Experiment 10.
Experiment 11.
Experiment 12.
Experiment 13.
Experiment 14.
Experiment 15. Of Auzotius.
CHAP. VIII.
Experiment 1.
Experiment 2.
Experiment 3.
Experiment 4.
Experiment 5.
Experiment 6.
Experiment 7.
Experiment 8.
CHAP. IX.
Experiment 9.
Experiment 10.
Experiment II.
Experiment 12.
CHAP. X.
CHAP. XI.
CHAP. XII.
Experiment 1.
Experiment 2.
Experiment 3.
Experiment 4.
Experiment 5.
Mr. Charles Townley his Experiment; from which, he would deduce a Perpetual Motion.
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A CONFUTATION OF GRANDAMICVS HIS MAGNETICAL TRACTATE, DE IMMOBILITATE TERRAE. The Third Book.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
CHAP. IV.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
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Experiment 1.
Experiment 2.
Experiment 3.
Experiment 4.
Experiment 5.
Of Damps.
Of the Suffocating Damp.
Of the Fiery Damp.
The Conclusion.
An Essay, to prove the World's Duration, from the slow motion of the Sun's Apo∣gaeum, or the Earth's Aphelion.
Errata.