Elements of the economy of nature; or, The principles of physics, chemistry and physiologyAdam Black, 1830 - 80 стор. |
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... things that are but extrinsic to its being true or false ; and as I would never reject a truth for being generally known or received , so will I not con- clude an opinion to be a truth for being generally known or received , merely ...
... things that are but extrinsic to its being true or false ; and as I would never reject a truth for being generally known or received , so will I not con- clude an opinion to be a truth for being generally known or received , merely ...
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... thing . Whether it be a probable thing , must de- pend upon its intrinsic verisimilitude , its accordance with what we find to be true by observation of nature generally : for the mind feels that whatever is extravagant and singu- lar ...
... thing . Whether it be a probable thing , must de- pend upon its intrinsic verisimilitude , its accordance with what we find to be true by observation of nature generally : for the mind feels that whatever is extravagant and singu- lar ...
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... things often thought to lie beyond the pale of discovery ; but , if the views advanced be found true , this feeling will soon disappear , and if they be not true , there is no good reason why the reader should not be offended from first ...
... things often thought to lie beyond the pale of discovery ; but , if the views advanced be found true , this feeling will soon disappear , and if they be not true , there is no good reason why the reader should not be offended from first ...
Сторінка ix
... by reflection , & c . a medium composed of a symmetrical tissue of tetraedrons . The intrinsic veri- similitude of such a hypothesis was also a maximum , for it seemed an idea most congenial to the nature of things PREFACE ix.
... by reflection , & c . a medium composed of a symmetrical tissue of tetraedrons . The intrinsic veri- similitude of such a hypothesis was also a maximum , for it seemed an idea most congenial to the nature of things PREFACE ix.
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John Gibson MacVicar. seemed an idea most congenial to the nature of things , that the most elementary of all media should consist of atoms whose form was the simplest possible . The subject seemed worthy of a serious inquiry , and this ...
John Gibson MacVicar. seemed an idea most congenial to the nature of things , that the most elementary of all media should consist of atoms whose form was the simplest possible . The subject seemed worthy of a serious inquiry , and this ...
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Сторінка 63 - And therefore that Nature may be lasting, the Changes of corporeal Things are to be placed only in the various Separations and new Associations and Motions of these permanent Particles : compound Bodies being apt to break, not in the midst of solid Particles, but where those particles are laid together and only touch in a few Points.
Сторінка 63 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Сторінка 59 - Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers, virtues, or forces by which they act at a distance, not only upon the rays of light for reflecting, refracting, and inflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the phenomena of nature?
Сторінка 58 - And, in reasoning on this subject, we must not forget to consider that most remarkable circumstance, that the source of heat generated by friction, in these experiments, appeared evidently to be inexhaustible. It is hardly necessary to add, that anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance: and it appears to me to be extremely difficult...
Сторінка 62 - ... that the smallest particles of matter may cohere by the strongest attractions, and compose bigger particles of weaker virtue; and many of these may cohere and compose bigger particles whose virtue is still weaker ; and so on for divers successions, until the progression end in the biggest particles, on which the operations in chemistry, and the colours of natural bodies, depend, and which, by adhering, compose bodies of a sensible magnitude.
Сторінка 535 - ... a powerful everliving Agent, who, being in all places, is more able by his will to move the bodies within hie. boundless uniform sensorium, and thereby to form and reform the parts of the universe, than we are by our will to move the parts of our own bodies.
Сторінка 58 - It is hardly necessary to add that anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the Heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION.
Сторінка 63 - For it became him who created them to set them in order. And if he did so, it's unphilosophical to seek for any other Origin of the World, or to pretend that it might arise out of a Chaos by the mere Laws of Nature; though being once form'd, it may continue by those Laws for many Ages.
Сторінка 603 - ... by the help of the fat of hogs, has covered the whole with flour, laid on by a machine with the utmost regularity ; if, when thus attired, he issues forth, and meets a Cherokee Indian, who has bestowed as much time at his toilet, and laid on...
Сторінка 58 - ... the particles move round their own axes, and separate from each other, penetrating in right lines through space.