PHILOSOPHICAL

CONVERSATIONS:

OR, A NEW

SYSTE M

O F

PHYSICS,

By Way of DIALOGUE.

With Eighty Nine COPPER PLATES.

Written in French by Father REGNAULT
of the SOCIETY of JESUS.

Tranflated into English and illustrated with NOTES

BY

THOMAS DALE, M. D.

VOL. III.

LONDON,

Printed for W. INNYS in St. Paul's Church-yard,
C. DAVIS the Corner of Pater-Nofter-Row, and
N, PREVOST against Southampton-ftreet in the Strand.

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Table of the Converfations

I.

Contained in this

THIRD VOLUME.

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PON the Origin, Growth, Perpendicularity and nutritive Juices of Page 1.

Plants,

II. Upon the Generation, Fruitfulness and Culture of Plants,

23.

III. Upon the Plants of the Sea, Coral, Mushrooms, and Ginseng,

IV. Upon the Maladies of Plants,

33.

46.

V. Wherein is explained a great number of curious Facts and Problems, which relate to Botany,

VI. Upon Animals,

VII. Upon Meteors,

VIII. Upon Thunder,

53.

69.

88.

I 20.

IX. Upon fallen Stars, Ignes fatui, and the

Aurora Borealis,

X. Upon the Rainbow,

139.

I54.

XI. Upon the Planets in general, and the Moon in particular,

165.