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... 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 interval , was to discern the absolute need ...
... 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 interval , was to discern the absolute need ...
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... nearly all their laws of combination , remain wholly unex- plained ; while the supposition itself , of two such fluids differing only by a positive and negative sign , is very remote from natural probability . Again , magnetism has been ...
... nearly all their laws of combination , remain wholly unex- plained ; while the supposition itself , of two such fluids differing only by a positive and negative sign , is very remote from natural probability . Again , magnetism has been ...
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... 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 only probable , but almost ...
... 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 only probable , but almost ...
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... nearly ) for a linear unit . Assume further that a small sphere of this radius , and of the density of the earth , has its particles symmetrically placed , and 10 " for the number in its radius , or its mean linear density . The ...
... nearly ) for a linear unit . Assume further that a small sphere of this radius , and of the density of the earth , has its particles symmetrically placed , and 10 " for the number in its radius , or its mean linear density . The ...
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... nearly void of matter . The space of the solar system half way to the nearest stars , exceeds the bulk of the sun more than 1022 to 1 , or ten thousand trillion times . It does not seem likely that the mean distance of the monads of ...
... nearly void of matter . The space of the solar system half way to the nearest stars , exceeds the bulk of the sun more than 1022 to 1 , or ten thousand trillion times . It does not seem likely that the mean distance of the monads of ...
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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...