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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- ERRATA
- Preface
- OBSERVATIONS ON THE SENSES
- AN INQUIRY CONCERNING COMBUSTION
- SECTION I The principal Phenomena of incombustible Bodies
- SECTION II The Phenomena of combustible Bodies
- SECTION III Of the Principle on which Combustion depends
- SECTION IV Of the Phlogiston
- SECTION V Of the Heat and Light attending Combustion
- SECTION VI Of the Continuance of Combustion
- SECTION VII A Speculation
- SECTION VIII Of the Origin of Heat in Combustion
- SECTION IX Of the Light and Colours which arise on the Ignition, and Combustion of Bodies
- SECTION X Of Respiration, and Animal Heat
- SECTION XI Of the vital and other motions of the Body
- SECTION XII Of the Action of the Fibres, or muscular Motion
- APPENDIX
SECTION IV - Of the Phlogiston
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- ERRATA
- Preface
- OBSERVATIONS ON THE SENSES
- AN INQUIRY CONCERNING COMBUSTION
- SECTION I The principal Phenomena of incombustible Bodies
- SECTION II The Phenomena of combustible Bodies
- SECTION III Of the Principle on which Combustion depends
- SECTION IV Of the Phlogiston
- SECTION V Of the Heat and Light attending Combustion
- SECTION VI Of the Continuance of Combustion
- SECTION VII A Speculation
- SECTION VIII Of the Origin of Heat in Combustion
- SECTION IX Of the Light and Colours which arise on the Ignition, and Combustion of Bodies
- SECTION X Of Respiration, and Animal Heat
- SECTION XI Of the vital and other motions of the Body
- SECTION XII Of the Action of the Fibres, or muscular Motion
- APPENDIX
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- Philosophical Observations on the Senses of Vision and HearingTo Which Are Added, a Treatise on Harmonic Sounds, and an Essay on Combustion and Animal Heat, pp. 100 - 104Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013First published in: 1780