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... 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 consequences were traced out , at intervals of reflection , such ...
... 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 consequences were traced out , at intervals of reflection , such ...
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... Electricity 134 • X. On the Electric Current XI . On Electro - magnetism XII . On Magnetism and Diamagnetism , XIII . On Terrestrial Physics in General 155 • 176 · 190 · · 202 ! ON MATTER AND ETHER , OR THE SECRET LAWS.
... Electricity 134 • X. On the Electric Current XI . On Electro - magnetism XII . On Magnetism and Diamagnetism , XIII . On Terrestrial Physics in General 155 • 176 · 190 · · 202 ! ON MATTER AND ETHER , OR THE SECRET LAWS.
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... electrical attraction and induction , atomic proportions , and the laws of crys- tallization . All the subtler influences of nature , light , heat , electricity , magnetism , chemical affinity , crystalline polarity , are found , more ...
... electrical attraction and induction , atomic proportions , and the laws of crys- tallization . All the subtler influences of nature , light , heat , electricity , magnetism , chemical affinity , crystalline polarity , are found , more ...
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... electric fluids . The second hypothesis has been developed by Coulomb , Poisson , Whewell , Murphy , and other ... electric currents . But the needful postulates , that two elements of electricity attract each other , when they move in ...
... electric fluids . The second hypothesis has been developed by Coulomb , Poisson , Whewell , Murphy , and other ... electric currents . But the needful postulates , that two elements of electricity attract each other , when they move in ...
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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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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...