Manchester Memoirs, Vol. LIX. {No. 13). Plate I. 



KENDAL, Nov. 4/1791, 



J. DALTONS 



PHILOSOPHICAL LECTURES 



* WILL BEGUN 



On Monday Evening the 14th of November, at 6 o'Clock, arid continue on 

 Mondays and Thifrfdays following. 



Admittance Sixpence each Lecture^ or Jive Shillings the whole, 



LECTURES I. & II. MECHANICS. 



On Matter, and its Properties. Attra&ion and Repulhon in general Experiments- * 

 upon eleclric, chymical, and particularly magnetic Attraction and Repuifion. On 

 Gravity. The Laws of Motion, Mechanic Powers. Vibration oi Pendnlums. 



LECTURES III. & IV. OPTICS. 



Nature and Properties of Light. Simple Vifion. Do&rine of Colours. Of reflected 

 Vifion, Mirrours, &c. Of refra&ed Vifion, Lenfes, &c. Burning Glaffes. Dekrip- 

 tion of the Eye, and manner of Virion. Of Optic Glaffes. Ihe Rainbow explained. 



" LECTURES V. & VI. HYDROSTATICS & PNEUMATICS. 



Of Fluids in general. Properties of j^elaftic Fluids. Specific Gravity of Bodies. 

 Of the Atmofphere. Defcription of the Air-Pump A great variety of'Fxpenmtnts 

 on the Air-Pump, proving the fpnng, weight, and other Properties of the Air. Ac- 

 count of Difcoveries upon fictitious Air, and common Ah injured by Refpiration, 

 Putrefaction, ConibuRion, &c. 



LECTURE VI(. ON FIRE. \ 



The Thermometer: Difcoveries relative to Heai coniequent thereto. Of the fource 

 of Animal iieat, and the nature or Combuftion. 



LECTURES VIII. IX. & X. ASTRONOMY. 



Of the Solar Syflem, and Syftem of the Univerfe. \ ari( us afrrononucal Plienomena 

 as the Phafes of the Moon, Eclipfes, Occultations, Tranfns, &c. explained, Oi I ides. 



LECTURES XI. & XII. U^E.OF THE GLOBES. 



Defcription of the Globes, and a variety ot Problems pertoitncd, and Phenomena 

 illuilrated by them. 



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