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... fact with regard to bodies on the earth's sur- face ; and since it would account also for the moon's revolu- tion , and the ... facts , ought first to be tried ; and more complex ones , only when the simpler has been 4 ON MATTER AND ETHER .
... fact with regard to bodies on the earth's sur- face ; and since it would account also for the moon's revolu- tion , and 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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... facts lead to th inference that both of these indices have a much highe value , and that the mean distance of the monads of ethe and atoms of matter is very considerably lower in orde of real magnitude . CHAPTER II . THE LAWS OF ...
... facts lead to th inference that both of these indices have a much highe value , and that the mean distance of the monads of ethe and atoms of matter is very considerably lower in orde of real magnitude . CHAPTER II . THE LAWS OF ...
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... facts of chemical combination . " We may cast into potassium oxygen , atom for atom , and again both oxygen and hydrogen in a twofold number of atoms ; and yet , with all these additions , the matter shall become less and less in bulk ...
... facts of chemical combination . " We may cast into potassium oxygen , atom for atom , and again both oxygen and hydrogen in a twofold number of atoms ; and yet , with all these additions , the matter shall become less and less in bulk ...
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... facts with regard to density and pressure . On the present theory , the first constant is that dis- tance , below which there is a growing increase of repulsive force , varying as the inverse twelfth power . Now the whole ethereal ...
... facts with regard to density and pressure . On the present theory , the first constant is that dis- tance , below which there is a growing increase of repulsive force , varying as the inverse twelfth power . Now the whole ethereal ...
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... facts admit an easy interpretation on the pre- sent theory . In a gas under pressure , the centrifugal force , from the relative motions of the separate chemical atoms , with the repulsion of the ether , exceeds the cohesive force . If ...
... facts admit an easy interpretation on the pre- sent theory . In a gas under pressure , the centrifugal force , from the relative motions of the separate chemical atoms , with the repulsion of the ether , exceeds the cohesive force . If ...
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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...