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Containing the Introduction, and the views of Descartes, Malebranche, Locke, etc., on Ideas, the Art of Thinking, and Sensible Qualities.

Introduction.
Chapter I. Method of Descartes, and his Logic. Principles of Locke.
Chap. II. Innate ideas of Descartes and Leibniz, drawn from Plato, Heraclitus, Pythagoras, and the Chaldeans. Malebranche's system, drawn from the same source, and from Saint Augustine.
Chap. III. On sensible qualities.

Containing the Systems of Leibniz, Buffon, and Needham, and the Truths concerning general Physics and Astronomy.

Chapter I. System of Leibniz.
Chap. II. Animated nature. Comparison of the System of Mr. de Buffon with that of Anaxagoras, Empedocles, and some other Ancients.

Chap. III. Active and animated nature. System of Needham.
Chap. IV. Corpuscular philosophy, and the infinite divisibility of matter.
Chap. V. On motion; the acceleration of motion; gravity or the fall of heavy bodies.
Chap. VI. Universal gravity, centrifugal and centripetal force. Laws of the motions of the Planets, according to their distance from the common center.
Chap. VII. Milky Way; solar systems, or plurality of Worlds; Satellites, Vortices.
Chap. VIII. On Light and Colors.
Chap. IX. Copernican system; motion of the Earth around the Sun; Antipodes.
Chap. X. On Telescopes.
Chap. XI. Revolution of the Planets on themselves.
Chap. XII. On Comets.
Chap. XIII. On the Moon.