Contents of The World
- On the Difference Between our Sensations and the Things That Produce Them
- In What the Heat and Light of Fire Consists
- On Hardness and Liquidity
- On the Void, and How it Happens that Our Senses Are Not Aware of Certain Bodies
- On the Number of Elements and on Their Qualities
- Description of a New World, and on the Qualities of the Matter of Which it is Composed
- On the Laws of Nature of this New World
- On the Formation of the Sun and the Stars of the New World
- On the Origin and the Course of the Planets and Comets in General; and of Comets in Particular
- On the Planets in General, and in Particular on the Earth and Moon
- On Weight
- On the Ebb and Flow of the Sea
- On Light
- On the Properties of Light
- That the Face of the Heaven of That New World Must Appear to Its Inhabitants Completely like That of Our World
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