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Page 70
... contrast with Common Light . There is a difficulty , stated by Professor Airy at the close of his Tract , in explaining the distinction between common light and light elliptically polarized . " The most general kind of light that we can ...
... contrast with Common Light . There is a difficulty , stated by Professor Airy at the close of his Tract , in explaining the distinction between common light and light elliptically polarized . " The most general kind of light that we can ...
Page 78
... of most , three fundamental and primary colours . The contrasts , however , are hardly less striking . The range of sounds includes six or seven octaves , while the whole spectrum , so far as sensible to the eye 78 ON MATTER AND ETHER .
... of most , three fundamental and primary colours . The contrasts , however , are hardly less striking . The range of sounds includes six or seven octaves , while the whole spectrum , so far as sensible to the eye 78 ON MATTER AND ETHER .
Page 79
... contrasts and resemblances may be explained in the following manner . The vibrations of light , being a billion times ... contrast between concord and discord , arising from slight variations of pitch , destroying sensible periodicity of ...
... contrasts and resemblances may be explained in the following manner . The vibrations of light , being a billion times ... contrast between concord and discord , arising from slight variations of pitch , destroying sensible periodicity of ...
Page 80
... contrast to the arbi- trary pitch , consequent on the wider range of the musical scale . This easy assumption being made , the analogy , in other respects , may be carried out without much difficulty . The simplest ratios of vibration ...
... contrast to the arbi- trary pitch , consequent on the wider range of the musical scale . This easy assumption being made , the analogy , in other respects , may be carried out without much difficulty . The simplest ratios of vibration ...
Page 82
... contrast . We are thus led to the inference that the sun's luminosity is due , in some way or other , to its immense relative mass , and its central position . The chief known sources of light are combustion or incandescence ...
... contrast . We are thus led to the inference that the sun's luminosity is due , in some way or other , to its immense relative mass , and its central position . The chief known sources of light are combustion or incandescence ...
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Page 3 - I frame no hypotheses: for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis ; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.
Page 37 - It seems possible to account for all the phenomena of heat, if it be supposed that in solids the particles are in a constant state of vibratory motion, the particles of the hottest bodies moving with the greatest velocity...