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Under this general head is included the whole of that extensive branch of science, "which explains the sensible motions of the bodies of the universe, with the view to discover their causes, to account for subordinate phenomena, and to improve art." In this department of science, the progress of the last century has been astonishingly great. New fields of inquiry have been opened; splendid discoveries have been made; and facts, apparently discordant, have been connected and systematized, to an extent which does signal honour to human capacity; and which far surpasses what the most sanguine projectors of former times had reason to anticipate. The branches of science covered in this chapter include electricity, galvanism, magnetism, motion and moving forces, hydraulics, pneumatics, optics, and astronomy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)