Excerpt from Elements of Mechanical Philosophy: For the Use of the Junior Students of the University of VirginiaThe former of these subdivisions includes the truths which fall especially within the province of natural his tory, the latter, those which in an enlarged use of the term may be embraced under the head of natural philosophy.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.