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Thomas Rawson Birks. O ON MATTER AND ETHER OR THE SECRET LAWS OF PHYSICAL CHANGE . BY THOMAS RAWSON BIRKS , M.A. RECTOR OF KELSHALL , HERTS FORMERLY FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE , CAMBRIDGE AUTHOR OF " THE DIFFICULTIES OF BELIEF " & c ...
Thomas Rawson Birks. O ON MATTER AND ETHER OR THE SECRET LAWS OF PHYSICAL CHANGE . BY THOMAS RAWSON BIRKS , M.A. RECTOR OF KELSHALL , HERTS FORMERLY FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE , CAMBRIDGE AUTHOR OF " THE DIFFICULTIES OF BELIEF " & c ...
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... on the verge of some great discovery , but the key which can unlock these various secrets of nature has not yet been attained . The theories which have been proposed , to explain separately 1 CHAPTER INTRODUCTION On Matter and Ether.
... on the verge of some great discovery , but the key which can unlock these various secrets of nature has not yet been attained . The theories which have been proposed , to explain separately 1 CHAPTER INTRODUCTION On Matter and Ether.
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... the phenomena , and its simplicity . AXIOM II . The simplest hypothesis , which offers any hope of explaining the facts , ought first to be tried ; and more complex ones , only when the simpler has been 4 ON MATTER AND ETHER .
... the phenomena , and its simplicity . AXIOM II . The simplest hypothesis , which offers any hope of explaining the facts , ought first to be tried ; and more complex ones , only when the simpler has been 4 ON MATTER AND ETHER .
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Thomas Rawson Birks. CHAPTER I. ON MATTER AND ETHER . 1 . EVERY particle of matter attracts every other par- ticle , with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance between them . This is the great discovery of Newton ...
Thomas Rawson Birks. CHAPTER I. ON MATTER AND ETHER . 1 . EVERY particle of matter attracts every other par- ticle , with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance between them . This is the great discovery of Newton ...
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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...