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Thomas Rawson Birks. 1863 , March 30 , $ 1.41 Gray Fund . Cambridge : PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY , M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS . PREFACE . THE Theory unfolded in the present Essay , Phys 336.2.
Thomas Rawson Birks. 1863 , March 30 , $ 1.41 Gray Fund . Cambridge : PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY , M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS . PREFACE . THE Theory unfolded in the present Essay , Phys 336.2.
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Thomas Rawson Birks. PREFACE . THE Theory unfolded in the present Essay , whatever may be its merits or defects , is not the hasty production of a moment . It is twenty - eight years since the first steps were taken in the line of ...
Thomas Rawson Birks. PREFACE . THE Theory unfolded in the present Essay , whatever may be its merits or defects , is not the hasty production of a moment . It is twenty - eight years since the first steps were taken in the line of ...
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... present investigation . It will then be endeavoured to trace out , in order , the main consequences of the fundamental hypothesis , and their cor- respondence with the known phenomena of physical change . CHAPTER I. ON MATTER AND ETHER ...
... present investigation . It will then be endeavoured to trace out , in order , the main consequences of the fundamental hypothesis , and their cor- respondence with the known phenomena of physical change . CHAPTER I. ON MATTER AND ETHER ...
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... 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 pressure has been already found to be 101 in grains per ...
... 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 pressure has been already found to be 101 in grains per ...
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... present hypothesis , the lique- faction of solids . Sir H. Davy remarked , long ago : " 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 vibra ...
... present hypothesis , the lique- faction of solids . Sir H. Davy remarked , long ago : " 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 vibra ...
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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...