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Letters on Different Subjects in Natural Philosophy, Volume 1 (Letters to a Ger…

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The Letters of Euler to a German Princess have acquired over all Europe a celebrity to which the reputation of the Author, the choice and importance of the several subjects, and the clearness of elucidation justly entitle them. They have deservedly been considered as a treasury of science, adapted to the purposes of every common seminary of learning. They may be studied to advantage without much previous elementary knowledge; they convey accurate ideas respecting a variety of objects, highly interesting in themselves, or calculated to excite a laudable curiosity; they inspire a proper taste for the sciences, and for that sound philosophy which, supported by science, and never losing sight of her cautious, steady, methodical advances, runs no risk of perplexing or misleading the attentive student. - Summary by Nicolas de Condorcet (14 hr 8 min)

Chapters

Of Magnitude, or Extension

7:47

Read by Elijah Fisher

Of Velocity

7:07

Read by Elijah Fisher

Of Sound, and Its Velocity

7:52

Read by Elijah Fisher

Of Consonance and Dissonance

6:28

Read by Elijah Fisher

Of Unison and Octaves

8:10

Read by Elijah Fisher

Of Other Consonances

9:14

Read by Cbteddy

Of the Twelve Tones of the Harpsichord

13:19

Read by Cbteddy

Of the Pleasure Derived from Fine Music

5:55

Read by Cbteddy

Compression of the Air

7:23

Read by prajak

Rarefaction and Elasticity of the Air

8:16

Read by prajak

Gravity of the Air

7:01

Read by prajak

Of the Atmosphere, and the Barometer

6:18

Read by Elijah Fisher

Of Air-Guns, and the Compression of Air in Gunpowder

6:43

Read by Elijah Fisher

The Effect Produced by Heat and Cold on All Bodies, and Of, the Pyrometer and T…

5:31

Read by Elijah Fisher

Changes Produced in the Atmosphere by Heat and Cold

7:48

Read by Elijah Fisher

The Cold Felt on High Mountains and at Great Depths Accounted For

7:25

Read by Elijah Fisher

Of Light, and the Systems of Descartes and Newton

6:54

Read by Bonnie de Lyons

Difficulties Attending the System of Emanation

6:36

Read by Bonnie de Lyons

A Different System Respecting the Nature of Rays and of Light Proposed

7:31

Read by Bonnie de Lyons

Of the Propagation of Light

6:42

Read by Bonnie de Lyons

Digression on the Distances of the Heavenly Bodies, and on the Nature of the Su…

6:15

Read by czandra

Elucidations on the Nature of Luminous Bodies, and Their Difference from Opaque…

7:16

Read by Verla Viera

How Opaque Bodies Become Visible Newton's System of the Reflection of Rays Prop…

8:34

Read by Jayjaysil

Examination and Refutation of Newton's System

11:36

Read by Emanuela

A Different Explanation of the Manner in Which Opaque Bodies Illuminated Become…

7:44

Read by Emanuela

Continuation of the Same Subject

8:50

Read by Emanuela

Conclusion: Clearness and Colour of Opaque Bodies Illuminated

9:37

Read by Emanuela

Nature of Colours in Particular

6:28

Read by czandra

Transparency of Bodies Relative to the Transmission of Rays

8:32

Read by Elijah Fisher

Of the Transmission of Rays of Light Through Transparent Mediums, and Their Ref…

8:04

Read by Elijah Fisher

Refraction of Rays of Different Colours

7:14

Read by Elijah Fisher

Of the Azure Colour of the Heavens

8:54

Read by czandra

Of Rays Issuing from a Distant Luminous Point, and of the Visual Angle

6:34

Read by Elijah Fisher

Of the Assistance Which Judgment Lends to Vision

6:43

Read by Elijah Fisher

Explanation of Certain Phenomena Relative to Optics

7:29

Read by Elijah Fisher

Of Shadow

7:16

Read by Elijah Fisher

Of Catoptrics, and the Reflection of Rays from Plain Mirrors

8:24

Read by Elijah Fisher

Reflection of Rays from Convex and Concave Mirrors Burning Mirrors

8:04

Read by Elijah Fisher

Of Dioptrics

8:36

Read by Elijah Fisher

Continuation of Burning — Glasses, and Their Focus

7:12

Read by Elijah Fisher

Of Vision, and the Structure of the Eye

5:24

Read by Elijah Fisher

Continuation Wonders Discoverable in the Structure of the Eye

6:07

Read by Elijah Fisher

Further Continuation Astonishing Difference Between the Eye of an Animal and th…

6:44

Read by Elijah Fisher

Perfections Discoverable in the Structure of the Eye

4:40

Read by Elijah Fisher

Of Gravity, Considered as a General Property of Body

6:58

Read by Elijah Fisher

Continuation of Specific Gravity

6:55

Read by Elijah Fisher

Terms Relative to Gravity and Their True Import

6:29

Read by Elijah Fisher

Reply to Certain Objections to the Erath's Spherical Figure, Derived from Gravi…

6:17

Read by Jayjaysil

True Direction and Action of Gravity Relatively to the Earth

6:52

Read by Verla Viera

Different Action of Gravity with Respect to Certain Countries and Distances fro…

7:57

Read by Verla Viera

Gravity of the Moon

5:33

Read by Verla Viera

Discovery of Universal Gravitation by Newton

9:08

Read by SirRoni

Continuation of the Mutual Attraction of the Heavenly Bodies

9:18

Read by prajak

Different Sentiments of Philosophers Respecting Universal Gravitation the Attra…

7:04

Read by prajak

Power by Which the Heavenly Bodies an Mutually Attracted

4:08

Read by prajak

The Same Subject Continued

6:41

Read by prajak

The Same Subject Continued

6:37

Read by prajak

Motion of the Heavenly Bodies Method of Determining It by the Laws of Universal…

4:56

Read by Cbteddy

System of the Universe

6:40

Read by Cbteddy

The Same Subject Continued

5:29

Read by Cbteddy

Small Irregularities in the Motions of the Planets, Caused by Their Mutual Attr…

5:59

Read by Cbteddy

Description of the Flux and Reflux of the Sea

6:45

Read by Belinda Mc

Different Opinions of Philosophers Respecting the Flux and Reflux of the Sea

6:22

Read by Belinda Mc

Explanation of the Flux and Reflux, from the Attractive Power of the Moon

5:33

Read by Verla Viera

The Same Subject Continued

5:06

Read by Verla Viera

The Same Subject Continued

6:17

Read by Verla Viera

The Same Subject Continued

6:15

Read by Verla Viera

More Particular Account of the Dispute Respecting Universal Gravitation

7:05

Read by Ty Lasky

Nature and Essence of Bodies or Extension, Mobility, and Impenetrability of Body

7:33

Read by ShrimpPhish

Impenetrability of Bodies

5:40

Read by ShrimpPhish

Of the Motion of Bodies, Real and Apparent

8:16

Read by ShrimpPhish

Of Uniform, Accelerated, and Retarded Motion

12:33

Read by SirRoni

Principal Law of Motion and Rest Disputes of Philosophers on the Subject

8:02

Read by jenno

Of the Inertia of Bodies of Powers

7:47

Read by jenno

Changes Which May Take Place in the State of Bodies

8:05

Read by elizabethhousworth

System of the Monads of Wolff

8:09

Read by elizabethhousworth

Origin and Nature of Powers

7:11

Read by Cajucom

The Same Subject Principle of the Least Possible Action

7:16

Read by jenno

On the Question, are There Any Other Species of Powers?

7:40

Read by jenno

Of the Nature of Spirits

5:12

Read by Owlivia

Of the Union Between the Soul and the Body

6:32

Read by Owlivia

Different Systems Relative to This Subject

6:49

Read by Owlivia

Examination of the System of Pre-Established Harmony an Objection to It

7:02

Read by Owlivia

Another Objection

6:32

Read by Owlivia

Of the Liberty of Spirits, and a Reply to Objections Against Liberty

6:40

Read by Owlivia

Tne Same Subject Continued

7:17

Read by Owlivia

Influence of the Liberty of Spirits Upon Events

7:45

Read by Owlivia

Of Events Natural, Supernatural, and Moral

7:03

Read by Owlivia

Of the Question Respecting the Best World Possible; and of the Origin of Evil

8:23

Read by Owlivia

Connexion of the Preceding Considerations with Religion Reply to the Objections…

6:16

Read by Owlivia

The Liberty of Intelligent Beings in Harmony with the Doctrines of the Christia…

5:52

Read by Owlivia

Elucidation Respecting the Nature of Spirits

8:14

Read by Owlivia

The Subject Continued Reflections on the State of Souls After Death

9:03

Read by Owlivia

Considerations on the Action of the Soul Upon the Body, and of the Body Upon th…

8:00

Read by Owlivia

Of the Faculties of the Soul, and of Judgment

8:58

Read by Owlivia

Conviction of the Existence of What We Perceive by the Senses of the Idealists,…

8:27

Read by elizabethhousworth

Refutation of the Idealists

8:22

Read by Constandina Sharpe

The Faculty of Perceiving, Reminiscence, Memory, and Attention Simple and Compo…

7:54

Read by jenno

Division of Ideas into Clear and Obscure, Distinct and Confused of Distraction

7:07

Read by jenno

Of the Abstraction of Notions Notions General and Individual: of Genus and Spec…

8:00

Read by jenno

Of Language; Its Nature, Advantages, and Necessity, in Order to the Communicati…

8:39

Read by Andrew Mauls Byron

Of the Perfections of a Language Judgment and Nature of Propositions, Affirmati…

7:59

Read by Andrew Mauls Byron

Of Syllogisms, and Their Different Forms When the First Proposition is Universal

9:31

Read by MaryAnn

Different Forms of Syllogisms Whose First Proposition is Particular

9:08

Read by MaryAnn

Analysis of Some Syllogisms

7:15

Read by MaryAnn

Different Figures and Modes of Syllogisms

11:03

Read by MaryAnn

Observations and Reflections on the Different Modes of Syllogism

6:53

Read by MaryAnn

Hypothetical Propositions, and Syllogisms Constructed of Them

8:48

Read by SirRoni

Of the Impression of Sensations on the Soul

7:11

Read by jenno

Of the Origin and Permission of Evil, and of Sin

9:30

Read by SirRoni

Of Moral and Physical Evil

6:35

Read by Larry Wilson

Reply to Complaints of the Existence of Physical Evil

6:14

Read by Larry Wilson

The Real Destination of Man Usefulness and Necessity of Adversity

5:16

Read by Larry Wilson

Of True Happiness. Conversion of Sinners. Reply to Objections on the Subject

6:32

Read by Larry Wilson

The True Foundation of Human Knowledge Sources of Truth, and Classes of Informa…

5:29

Read by Larry Wilson