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... distinct from matter , as proved by the phenomena of light and electricity , and along with this , the consequent necessity for three distinct laws of central force , to explain their nature and mutual action . From these data alone ...
... distinct from matter , as proved by the phenomena of light and electricity , and along with this , the consequent necessity for three distinct laws of central force , to explain their nature and mutual action . From these data alone ...
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... . But the later discoveries of the Polarization of Heat , and of its equivalence with mechanical force , have almost entirely overthrown the idea that it is a distinct and separate fluid . All these theories , of 2 ON MATTER AND ETHER .
... . But the later discoveries of the Polarization of Heat , and of its equivalence with mechanical force , have almost entirely overthrown the idea that it is a distinct and separate fluid . All these theories , of 2 ON MATTER AND ETHER .
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Thomas Rawson Birks. distinct and separate fluid . All these theories , of two electric fluids , a magnetic fluid , and a fluid of heat , are not only fragmentary , but divergent , and in their results contradictory to each other ...
Thomas Rawson Birks. distinct and separate fluid . All these theories , of two electric fluids , a magnetic fluid , and a fluid of heat , are not only fragmentary , but divergent , and in their results contradictory to each other ...
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... distinct laws of force , constants of force , and constants of distance . The first result of these simple axioms , when applied to the great problem of physical science , still unsolved , is to sweep away all the specific fluids ...
... distinct laws of force , constants of force , and constants of distance . The first result of these simple axioms , when applied to the great problem of physical science , still unsolved , is to sweep away all the specific fluids ...
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... distinct from it . First of all , such an assumption is very complex and arbitrary , and thus violates the first and second Axioms of inductive inquiry . A central force , emanating from a defi- nite point or centre , is proved to exist ...
... distinct from it . First of all , such an assumption is very complex and arbitrary , and thus violates the first and second Axioms of inductive inquiry . A central force , emanating from a defi- nite point or centre , is proved to exist ...
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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.
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