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... explain their nature and mutual action . From these data alone consequences were traced out , at intervals of reflection , such as other engagements would allow , which seemed gradually to take a definite shape , and reveal the main ...
... explain their nature and mutual action . From these data alone consequences were traced out , at intervals of reflection , such as other engagements would allow , which seemed gradually to take a definite shape , and reveal the main ...
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... explanation , I commit it now to the candid and thoughtful reflection of men of science , and to the blessing of Him in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge . KELSHALL RECTORY , Sept. 23 , 1862 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER ...
... explanation , I commit it now to the candid and thoughtful reflection of men of science , and to the blessing of Him in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge . KELSHALL RECTORY , Sept. 23 , 1862 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER ...
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... 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.
... 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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Thomas Rawson Birks. The theories which have been proposed , to explain separately some one class of these phenomena ... explanation at all is given , why elec- tricity in motion should attract differently from its state of rest , or why ...
Thomas Rawson Birks. The theories which have been proposed , to explain separately some one class of these phenomena ... explanation at all is given , why elec- tricity in motion should attract differently from its state of rest , or why ...
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... explain their appearance . " He says further , at the close of the work : " Whatever is not de- duced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis ; and hypotheses , whether metaphysical or physical , whether of occult qualities or ...
... explain their appearance . " He says further , at the close of the work : " Whatever is not de- duced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis ; and hypotheses , whether metaphysical or physical , whether of occult qualities or ...
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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...