... proceeded from hence only, that he found he was not able, from experiment and observation, to give a satisfactory account of this medium, and the manner of its operation in producing the chief phenomena of nature."* The doctrine of direct action at... Nature - Стр. 321редактор(ы): - 1873Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Colin MacLaurin - 1750 - Страниц: 474
...hence only, that he found he was not able, from experiment and obfervation, to give a fatisfacctory account of this medium, and the manner of its operation, in producing the chief phenomena of nature. They who imagine that he has only introduced a new phrafe or two into philofophy, without any real... | |
| Robert Spearman - 1755 - Страниц: 466
...was not tc able from experiments and obfervation to " give a fatisfactory account of this me" diuin, and the manner of its operation, " in producing the chief phenomena of na" ture." But where has he publifhed this his opinion, except only by way of query ? and this in direct... | |
| Colin MacLaurin - 1775 - Страниц: 468
...hence only, that he found he was not able, from experiment and obfervation, to give a fatisfactory account of this medium, and the manner of its operation, in producing the chief phaenomena of nature. They who imagine that he has only introduced a new phrafe or two into philofophy,... | |
| 1874 - Страниц: 462
...found he was not able, from experiment and observation, to give a satisfactory account of this medinm, and the manner of its operation in producing the chief...of direct action at a distance cannot claim for its anthor the discoverer of universal gravitation. It was first asserted by Roger Cotes, in his preface... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1875 - Страниц: 588
...hence only, that he found ho was not able, from experiment and observation, to give a satisfactory account of this medium, and the manner of its operation...of direct action at a distance cannot claim for its anthor the discoverer of universal gravitation. It was first asserted by Roger Cotes, in hie preface... | |
| N. C. (F. T. S.) - 1887 - Страниц: 66
...publish his theory, " because he was not able, from experiment and observation, to give a satisfactory account of this medium, and the manner of its operation in producing the chief phenomena of nature." Huygens propounded the theory of a luminiferous ether to explain the phenomena of light. Faraday conjectured... | |
| 1888 - Страниц: 928
...nence only, that he found he was not able, from experiment and observation, to give a satisfactory account of this medium and the manner of its operation in producing the chief- phenomena of nature. " * In his Optical Queries, indeed, he shows that if the pressure of this medium is less in the neighbourhood... | |
| 1889 - Страниц: 432
...publish his theory, " because he was not able from expariment and observation to give a satisfactory account of this medium, and the manner of its operation in producing the chief phenomena of nature." Huygens propounded the theory of a luminiferous ether to explain the phenomena of light. Faraday conjectured... | |
| Royal Institution of Naval Architects - 1889 - Страниц: 604
...was not able from experiment and observation to give a satisfactory account of this medium, and of the manner of its operation in producing the chief phenomena of nature." Since the close of the terrestrial chapter of Newton's life, the modern theory of thermodynamics, the... | |
| Thomas Preston - 1890 - Страниц: 494
...theory, " because he was not able from experiment and observation to give a satisfactory account of the medium and the manner of its operation in producing the chief phenomena of nature." The only ether which has survived is that conceived by Huygens to account for the propagation of light.... | |
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