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... 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 viva of rotation , will be stable , and resist any separation 34 ON MATTER AND ETHER .
... 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 viva of rotation , will be stable , and resist any separation 34 ON MATTER AND ETHER .
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Thomas Rawson Birks. rotation , will be stable , and resist any separation of its components , or change of the axis of its rotation . Let two such atoms revolve round parallel axes with opposite poles on the same side . There will be ...
Thomas Rawson Birks. rotation , will be stable , and resist any separation of its components , or change of the axis of its rotation . Let two such atoms revolve round parallel axes with opposite poles on the same side . There will be ...
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... will decline , and approach to an absolute zero , but the latent heat will increase , and reach its maximum . For by the separation of the particles , and their approach to a state of rest , each will 40 ON MATTER AND ETHER .
... will decline , and approach to an absolute zero , but the latent heat will increase , and reach its maximum . For by the separation of the particles , and their approach to a state of rest , each will 40 ON MATTER AND ETHER .
Page 41
... separated , condense around them the largest amount of ether . All sensible heat , in the collision or oscillation of neighbouring atoms of matter , will thus have disappeared ; but latent heat , in the quantity of condensed ether , or ...
... separated , condense around them the largest amount of ether . All sensible heat , in the collision or oscillation of neighbouring atoms of matter , will thus have disappeared ; but latent heat , in the quantity of condensed ether , or ...
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... separated into their planes , and even these , perhaps , into their simple atoms , these last are dis- tributed almost uniformly by the repulsive force of the ether which they have separately condensed around them . 31. RESULTING ...
... separated into their planes , and even these , perhaps , into their simple atoms , these last are dis- tributed almost uniformly by the repulsive force of the ether which they have separately condensed around them . 31. RESULTING ...
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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.
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