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... natural probability . Again , magnetism has been referred , by Ampère , to spiral systems of electric currents . But the needful postulates , that two elements of electricity attract each other , when they move in the same direction at ...
... natural probability . Again , magnetism has been referred , by Ampère , to spiral systems of electric currents . But the needful postulates , that two elements of electricity attract each other , when they move in the same direction at ...
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... natural consequence , all , or nearly all , the same classes of phenomena , which a true theory is wanted to explain . Such an hypothesis may be called probable , and has a claim to fuller development . AXIOM IV . An hypothesis is not ...
... natural consequence , all , or nearly all , the same classes of phenomena , which a true theory is wanted to explain . Such an hypothesis may be called probable , and has a claim to fuller development . AXIOM IV . An hypothesis is not ...
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... natural starting point for every further advance in phy- sical science . The history of Astronomy for two centuries has consisted mainly in the development of its results . But rich and fertile as its consequences , in one direction ...
... natural starting point for every further advance in phy- sical science . The history of Astronomy for two centuries has consisted mainly in the development of its results . But rich and fertile as its consequences , in one direction ...
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... natural result of the law alone , fails to satisfy the actual phenomena . 4. The simplest view of matter , derived at once from the law of gravitation , is that it consists of monads , or move- able centres of force , unextended , but ...
... natural result of the law alone , fails to satisfy the actual phenomena . 4. The simplest view of matter , derived at once from the law of gravitation , is that it consists of monads , or move- able centres of force , unextended , but ...
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... natural claim to be viewed as distinct and inconvertible kinds of substance , wholly incapable of trans- mutation . They are specific distinctions , while those of the Four Elements , rightly expounded , are generic , and thus rank ...
... natural claim to be viewed as distinct and inconvertible kinds of substance , wholly incapable of trans- mutation . They are specific distinctions , while those of the Four Elements , rightly expounded , are generic , and thus rank ...
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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...