THOMAS DICK,
AUTHOR OF A VARIETY OF LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC COMMUNI-
CATIONS IN NICHOLSON'S PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL, THE

ANNALS OF PHILOSOPHY, &c. &r.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.

NEW-YORK:
G. & C. CARVILL, 108 BROADWAY.
Sleight & Tucker, Printers, Jamaica.

1826.

THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY

192852

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONG. R

1910

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DAVID BREWSTER, LL.D.

Fellow of the Royal Society of London ; Secretary to the Royal
Society of Edinburgh ; Honorary Member of the Royal Irish
Academy; Member of the Royal Swedish Academy
of Sciences; Honorary Associate of the Royal

Academy of Sciences at Lyons, &c. &c.

THIS VOLUME,

INTENDED TO ILLUSTRATE THE

CONNECTION OF SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY WITH RELIGION,

AND WITH

THE MORAL IMPROVEMENT OF MANKIND,

IS INSCRIBED,

AS A TESTIMONY OF RESPECT

FOR THE ACQUISITIONS WHICH SCIENCE HAS DERIVED

FROM HIS PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOVERIES

AND LITERARY LABOURS,

BY HIS MOST OBEDIENT

AND HUMBLE SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.