CONTENTS.' 



Art. Ppcr. 



J-/''^ F the Laws of Motion ; by the honourable 

 ^^ Hknry Home, Efq; one of the Senators 



of the College cf Juftice. - 1 



II. Some rematks on the laws of Motion, and the. 



Inertia of Matter; byJoHN Stewart^, M. D. 

 Fellow of the Royal College of Phyficians, 

 and Prcfcflbrof Natural Philofophy in theUni- 

 verfity of Etlinbmgh. - - ^p 



III. Pappi Alexandrini coUeftionum mathematica-* 



rum libri quarti propofitio quarta generalior 

 fa£l:a ; cui propofitiones aliquot eodem fpe£tan- 

 tcs adjiduntur i au6bore'MATTHEO Stew- 

 art, in Academia Edinenfi Mathefeos -Pro- 

 feflbre. •• - -■ iry 



IV. Of the Caufe of the Variations of the Obliquity 



of the Ecliptic, by Colin M'Laurin, late 

 Fellow of the Royal Society, and Profeilbr of 

 Mathematics in the Univetfity of Edinburgh. 191 



V. Concerning the iud^en and furpriling changea 



. obfcrved en the furface cf Jupiter's Body ; by 

 the fame. - - ■^ 203 



VI. Obfervations en Thunder and Elefiricity, by 

 Ebenezer M-Fait, M.D. - 20(i 



VII. Seme Phsenomen". obfervable in froggy weather ; 



by the fi.m^. - . 219 



Vol. r. h vm. 



