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must enter extensively even into an elementa’ tary treatise 
But in this respect, the original work of Enfield is. almost 
totally deficient... Like those from which it is bo 
contains little more: than a naked series of mathematical 
principles ;* with. scarcely an intimation that any of them 
-are.at variance with facts. Nor do we think —_ the edi- 
tors of Jater- editions have _been- fortunate i » their at- 
a which 
danbiees to yield to calculation, and which theory 
ly overlooked. The names of Bossut, Cobioabe Wihien, 
Dalton, Biot suuie: and other great experimentalists who 
have almost created a new era in philosophy, by their suc- 
cess. 30; y Sleaning up the scattered laws: of nature which New- 
‘ton a 3m compelling 
s where e the 
empirieal formule to perform the office of laws 
subject is incapa ble of theoretical i ‘eeteued 
: certaining the precise values of | those = irecpeacniqeat 
. ei Pe 
nen VERE See Sngoags as paren: ws Lies 
have gee : Bests 
Whil ile epitgatitt a- this.ve i 
fae we would by no means wish to see “its present wero form 
disearded. ‘With the exeation of electricity, magnetism, and a few to pics 
reer toe :to which thi — of ocuaents 
i saites gra e regard the form of proposition and demonstration into 
Field has thrown his feel utes as constitutiug its. chit recommen: 
ntary 
disenssing physic 
aseary ago, sabi at rm a stat, 
nstratio 
dd dem nexed, is- omens uperi iors for the. ses of 
sirwe “modern analytical mode, i in which the fi ren: 
pine investiga “expressed a formula. 
‘The mploymen nt of | eis atter_m is « “occas pervert, 
es! 1 is i almost pasta e.most eed a the former, whenever it can 
ane r the picts i, Tepanne inckioren, and te 
ie sade wile itis santas 2 
Mie better — to og purposed te rectation eseepaecoeligitl 
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