JONES (William). An Essay on the First Principles of Natural Philosophy: wherein the use of Natural Means, or Second Causes, in the Oeconomy of the Material World, is demonstrated from Reason, Experiments of various Kinds, and the Testimony of Antiquity. In Four Books.1762

Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Printing-house, First edition, 4to (268 x 215mm), [6], 281, [1]pp., 3 engraved plates (2 folding), some occasional spotting, cont. half calf, marbled boards, rebacked, leather title label lettered in gilt. The four books of the text are "Of the mechanism of nature"; "Attraction and gravity considered at large"; "Of a vacuum in the heavens, and between the parts of bodies: with an experimental enquiry into the physical causes of cohesion and repulsion"; and "The judgment of antiquity on the system of nature: together with the sentiments of some modern author of best repute". Jones and George Horne, later Bishop of Norwich, met while scholars at Oxford and became lifelong friends. Both were already students of the writings of John Hutchinson, though they were never unreservedly 'Hutchinsonians'. Babson, 76; Not in Gray; Wallis, Newton and Newtoniana, 101.6.