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Excerpt from A New Physical System of Astronomy, or an Attempt to Explain the Operations of the Powers Which Impel the Planets and Comets to Perform Eliptical Revolutions Round the Sun, and Revolve on Their Own Axis: In Which, the Physical System of Sir Isaac Newton, Is Examined, and Presumed to Be Refuted IN all our pursuits, we Should take nature for our guide and what the Deity has not done, we should never attempt to do. He has made a number of perpetual motions, and placed many of them in our View, which revolve regularly, and keep time very accurately, but all of them are impelled and actuated by uids; nor is it possible to produce one single instance, in which solids generate motion, independa ent of the action of uids; and I at present do not believe, that any pure, simple uid, when fairly reduced to an abso lute state of rest, can be the generative cause of motion, until it is either united with some other substance, or acted upon by friction, collision, or some substance in actual mo tion; which is one reason amongst many others, that in duces me to believe, that the electric uid is a compound of pure elementary fire and oxygen, which in combination with the other parts of the air, flows into the poles of the sun, where it is decompounded, and the pure elementary fire, sent forth from the body of the sun, in rays of light, which' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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 stat