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... polarity , are found , more and more , to be intimately re- lated to each other . Men of science feel themselves to be on the verge of some great discovery , but the key which can unlock these various secrets of nature has not yet been ...
... polarity , are found , more and more , to be intimately re- lated to each other . Men of science feel themselves to be on the verge of some great discovery , but the key which can unlock these various secrets of nature has not yet been ...
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... polarity , will have all the quali- ties which belong to solid bodies . 23. To determine further the relations between the fixed constants , in connection with the phenomena of gravi- tation and cohesion . Let m , n be the neg . logs ...
... polarity , will have all the quali- ties which belong to solid bodies . 23. To determine further the relations between the fixed constants , in connection with the phenomena of gravi- tation and cohesion . Let m , n be the neg . logs ...
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... polarity , and the axis of revolution will vary with ease . But in com- pound atoms , the material monads revolve round the axis , and will be thrown out beyond their natural distance . Such a revolving atom , in proportion to its vis ...
... polarity , and the axis of revolution will vary with ease . But in com- pound atoms , the material monads revolve round the axis , and will be thrown out beyond their natural distance . Such a revolving atom , in proportion to its vis ...
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... polarity be sufficiently powerful , it will change their rotation from the axis of greatest to one of least moment , which will be lengthwise , and allow the poles to retain their closest appulse to neighbouring atoms . Thus every ...
... polarity be sufficiently powerful , it will change their rotation from the axis of greatest to one of least moment , which will be lengthwise , and allow the poles to retain their closest appulse to neighbouring atoms . Thus every ...
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... polarity in their own places , around their mean position . This increase of motion will produce an in- crease of repulsion , by which the atoms will recede from each other , and the body expand . By this same expansion , the polar ...
... polarity in their own places , around their mean position . This increase of motion will produce an in- crease of repulsion , by which the atoms will recede from each other , and the body expand . By this same expansion , the polar ...
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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...