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Excerpt from First Principles of Natural Philosophy: A d104-Book for Common Schools The latest developments of science, such as the intro duction and use of electrical units, have been freely utilized the mere polemics of physics has been ignored. Any teacher or pupil using this book and finding any error therein is requested to communicate the same to the publishers or author. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from First Principles of Natural Philosophy The growth of physical science has rendered it more and more certain that phenomena of all kinds and in all places are due to the qualities and activities of the ultimate atoms of matter. Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, and Physiology are each easily reducible to the same factors, and hence these sciences may properly be classed as departments of physical science. The name Physics has heretofore been held to apply to phenomena which could not properly be included in the above sciences. For that reason, and to emphasize the relationship of these to fundamental physical principles, the name Natural Philosophy has been adopted for this book, restoring an old term to its proper place, and giving it its proper meaning. The effort has been made to direct the attention of the student from the physics of mechanism to the physics of molecules, and help him to carry the mechanical conceptions gained by the study of visible bodies to their ultimate particles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.