A
COURSE
OF
Mechanical, Magnetical, Optical, Hydrostatical,
AND
Pneumatical EXPERIMENTS.
To be perform'd byFrancis Hauksbee;and the Explanatory Lectures read byWilliam Whiston,M. A.
MECHANICKS.
1st Day.SirIsaac Newton's ThreeLaws of Motion, or Nature, demonstratedby Experiments.
That the Velocity of Falling Bodies is as theTimes of Falling, and the Lines of Descent in theDuplicate Proportion of those Times.
An Instrument to measure the Force of FallingBodies.
Experiments concerning the Sliding, Rolling, andFalling of Bodies.
That Bodies will ascend as high, as whence theyfall by the last Velocity impress'd, when all Obstaclesare removed.
That Bodies by a compound Force move in a DiagonalLine.
2d—The Balance and Stilyard, with all theirProperties and Uses shewn and explain'd.
The Method of estimating the Momentum, orQuantity of Motion in any given Body.
The general Principle of Mechanicks establishedupon this Method.
Experiments to demonstrate the different Effectsof the same Weight of Power acting in differentDirections at the same Point of any Engine.
The Resolution of Forces into those of other Directions.
All the various Kinds of Levers explain'd.
3d—All the Phænomena of Pulleys, both singleand in all their possible Combinations explain'd.
The Power of the Wheel or Axis in Peritrochioexplain'd.
The Wedge, with the Method of comparing itsForce, deduced from Experiments.
The Screw, with the manner of computing itsForce.
A Compound Engine.
4th—An Experiment of Lifting a Weight by aChain of Inflated Bladders, with its Application toMuscular Motion.
Galilæo's Demonstration concerning the Strength ofthe Bones, Timber, &c. reduced to Experiment.
The Method of computing the Force of the Airon the Sails of Windmills, and of Ships; and of Wateron Water-Wheels, and on the Rudder of a Ship.
Experiments to shew the proportional Advantagesof large and small Wheels, in all Sorts of Carriages,as Couches, Waggons, Carts, &c.
5th—An Experiment to shew, that the lateralMotion compounded with the perpendicular Projection,does not alter the Line of Ascent or Descentin the projected Body.
The most considerable Objections against the Motionof the Earth, answered from this Experiment.
That the Line described by a Projectile is a Parabola.
The Experiments upon which the Art of Gunnerydoes depend, most exactly perform'd.
6th—Experiments concerning Pendulums.
The Description and chief Properties of the Cycloid,and the Application of Cycloidal Cheeks forregulating the Vibrations of Pendulums.
An Experiment to shew the Analogy betweenthe Swings of a Pendulum and the Waves of the Sea.
Experiments concerning the Expansion of