ET HÆC DE DEO, DE QUO UTIQUE EX PHÆNOMENIS DISSERERE AD PHILOSOPHIAM NATURALEM PERTINET. NEWTON, CONCLUSION OF THE PRINCIPIA. ASTRONOMY AND GENERAL PHYSICS CONSIDERED WITH REFERENCE TO NATURAL THEOLOGY BY WILLIAM WHEWELL D. D. MASTER OF TRINITY COLLEGE AND PROFESSOR OF MORAL I owe it to you that I was selected for the task attempted in the following pages, a distinction which I feel to be honourable; and on this account alone I should have a peculiar pleasure in dedicating the work to your Lordship. I do so with additional gratification on another account: the Treatise has been written within the walls of the College of which your Lordship was formerly a resident member, and its merits, if it have any, are mainly due to the spirit and habits of the place. The society is always pleased and proud to recollect that a person of the |