PHYSICAL

, something belonging to nature, or existing in it. Thus, we say a Physical point, in opposition to a mathematical one, which last only exists in the imagination. Or a Physical substance or body, in opposition to spirit, or metaphysical substance, &c.

Physical

, or Sensible Horizon. See Horizon.

Physico-Mathematics, or Mixed Mathematics, includes those branches of Physics which, uniting observation and experiment to mathematical calculation, explain mathematically the phenomena of nature.

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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.

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