Principles of Physics and Meteorology, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Principles of Physics and Meteorology, Vol. 1 General Idea. - The grand spectacle that is ever present to our eyes in the vast realm of nature excites within us so ardent a thirst for knowledge, that we feel ourselves irresistibly impelled to the consideration of the combined causes that have produced these wondrous results. Such subjects fall within the department of natural philosophy, whose task it is to trace the connecting link between the different phenomena of nature, and, as far as this is possible, to unravel the causes from which they have originated. The combined natural sciences treat of bodice - a word which we must not receive in the limited sense in which it is understood by the mathematician, who looks only to the relations of space, disregarding the matter that fills space, while it is to the properties of this very matter that the natural philosopher devotes his especial attention. The interior of bodies is closed to our view, their external appearance being only made known to us by means of what we learn concerning them through our senses. Thus, a body, standing in no connection with our senses, has, so far as we are concerned, no existence, and it is probable that there is still much passing around us in nature of which we have no conception, from the want of some additional sense by which we can recognise its existence. 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.