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Page 43
... union . Assuming the arrangements to be known before and after that union , its amount will be capable of exact calculation , the laws of affinity and repulsion being also known . Light consists of vibrations or undulations , trans ...
... union . Assuming the arrangements to be known before and after that union , its amount will be capable of exact calculation , the laws of affinity and repulsion being also known . Light consists of vibrations or undulations , trans ...
Page 58
... union with the matter , to which it is thus attached . Hence ethereal vibrations must of course be propagated through the whole extent of these bodies , though greatly modified by the presence of the matter , and the special atomic ...
... union with the matter , to which it is thus attached . Hence ethereal vibrations must of course be propagated through the whole extent of these bodies , though greatly modified by the presence of the matter , and the special atomic ...
Page 70
... elliptically polarized . " The most general kind of light that we can conceive , " he there remarks , " is elliptically polarized , as the union of any number of vibrations in any directions , and following at 70 ON MATTER AND ETHER .
... elliptically polarized . " The most general kind of light that we can conceive , " he there remarks , " is elliptically polarized , as the union of any number of vibrations in any directions , and following at 70 ON MATTER AND ETHER .
Page 81
... union with another ray , because the new mean , from the half sum of the lines of their vibrations will be within the limit of visibility . In this case they must seem nearly identical in their properties with the last visible rays at ...
... union with another ray , because the new mean , from the half sum of the lines of their vibrations will be within the limit of visibility . In this case they must seem nearly identical in their properties with the last visible rays at ...
Page 87
... union with each other , form chemical compounds . The ratio between hydrogen , the lightest , and gold , the heaviest , is 1 to 197. Out of sixty , however , there are only five or six of which the atomic weight is more than a hundred ...
... union with each other , form chemical compounds . The ratio between hydrogen , the lightest , and gold , the heaviest , is 1 to 197. Out of sixty , however , there are only five or six of which the atomic weight is more than a hundred ...
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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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