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... motion and centrifugal atomic force , in nearly all branches of physics , were then im- perfectly traced out in connexion with various kinds of phenomena , and became settled convictions of my mind . A second step , after some little ...
... motion and centrifugal atomic force , in nearly all branches of physics , were then im- perfectly traced out in connexion with various kinds of phenomena , and became settled convictions of my mind . A second step , after some little ...
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... motion is in the direction of their distance , have none of the simplicity of ultimate laws . No explanation at all is given , why elec- tricity in motion should attract differently from its state of rest , or why currents in constant ...
... motion is in the direction of their distance , have none of the simplicity of ultimate laws . No explanation at all is given , why elec- tricity in motion should attract differently from its state of rest , or why currents in constant ...
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... motion , and will therefore be more strongly attracted by it , and attract it in return . The other monads , repelling the ether , and attracting the matter , will impress on the two a rotatory motion . But the centrifugal force ...
... motion , and will therefore be more strongly attracted by it , and attract it in return . The other monads , repelling the ether , and attracting the matter , will impress on the two a rotatory motion . But the centrifugal force ...
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... motion will be around the axis of greatest moment . But when the density is greater , and the cohesive force in consequence is large , the atoms will be confined in the direction of the greatest moment , and will either revolve round a ...
... motion will be around the axis of greatest moment . But when the density is greater , and the cohesive force in consequence is large , the atoms will be confined in the direction of the greatest moment , and will either revolve round a ...
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... motion in modifying the cohesion . Let a compound atom , with its attached ether monads , be conceived to revolve round any axis . The centrifugal force will throw out the particles near the equator , whether of matter or ether , in ...
... motion in modifying the cohesion . Let a compound atom , with its attached ether monads , be conceived to revolve round any axis . The centrifugal force will throw out the particles near the equator , whether of matter or ether , in ...
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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...