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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 25, 1771
Page
3
Fragmentary reports describe the plague decimating populations in a realm, a violent Mount Vesuvius eruption, a royal act of guarding a wounded English traveler, and multiple ship arrivals and naval maneuvers near Spithead and Portsea. The text blends European events with local notices and theatre news.
A lengthy reply from a lecturer defending his Part II on perpetual motion. He rebuts critical objections about vision, center of gravity, and velocity relationships, cites Newtonian method and Wallis historic experiments, and promises further demonstrations while chiding reviewers for misreadings. He defends the scientific method and notes errors in the reviewer’s text.
Fragmentary OCR text shows a 18th century exchange involving John Horne and William Wildman about debts, payments, and duties. The dialogue references a Paris trip, seven guineas paid, and a request to settle remaining sums, with accusations of misprints and misstatements. The tone remains legalistic and argumentative, citing letters, pension topics, and the idea of public accountability.
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