O'N

NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL

PHILOSOPHY,

CONSIDERED IN IT'S PRESENT STATE OF

IMPROVEMENT.

DESCRIBING, IN A FAMILIAR AND EASY MANNER,

THE PRINCIPAL PHENOMENA OF NATURE;

AND SHEWING,

THAT THEY ALL CO-OPERATE IN DISPLAYING

THE

GOODNESS, WISDOM, AND POWER OF GOD.

By GEORGE ADAMS,

Mathematical Instrument Maker to His Majesty, and Optician to His Royal

Highness the Prince of Wales.

VOL. IV.

LONDON:
PRINTED by R. HINDMARSH,
PRINTER TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALB,

OLD-BAILEY.
SOLD by the AUTHOR, No. 60, FLEET.STREET. :::::

THENEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

1897.

TABLE of CONTENTS.

LECTURE XXXVII.

Page

OF the Copernican system

Summary view of the solar system

6 to 38

Tables of the diameters, distances, &c. of the planets 39

LECTURE XXXVIII.

Explanation of the seasons, &c. on the Copernican

system .

Of the shape or figure of the earth

Of the diurnal motion of the earth

Of the phenomena occasioned by the diurnal motion

Of the annual motion of the earth

Of the apparent motion of the sun

Of the seasons of the year

LECTURE XXXIX.

An explanation of the phenomena of the planets accord-

ing to the Copernican system

80

Of the inferior planets

83 to 94