| Balfour Stewart - 1873 - 248 páginas
...architect, or, at least, of one who has realized, to some extent, the architect's views. 188. Theancients possessed great genius and intellectual power, but...kilogrammes and metres and standard clocks. Descartes, Nevdon, and Huyghens on a Medium. 189. In modern times Descartes, author of the v^tical hypothesis,... | |
| Balfour Stewart - 1874 - 264 páginas
...were early heard, but yet it required long centuries of patient waiting for the practised ear of 7 the skilled musician to appreciate the mighty harmony...kilogrammes and metres and standard clocks, Descartes, Nevdon, and Huyghens on a Medium. 189. In modem times Descartes, author of the vertical hypothesis,... | |
| Balfour Stewart - 1874 - 244 páginas
...architect, or, at least, of one who has realized, to some extent, the architect's views. 188. Theancients possessed great genius and intellectual power, but...Medium. 189. In modern times Descartes, author of the vortical hypothesis, necessarily presupposed the existence of a medium in inter-planetary spaces, but... | |
| Henry Allon - 1874 - 764 páginas
...something else? Such problems confirm what Dr. Stewart says, more or less explicitly, more than once, 'the universe has more than one point of view, and...will not yield their treasures to the most determined physi130 Contemporary Literature. 131 cists armed only with kilogrammes and metres ami standard clocks'... | |
| Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1877 - 696 páginas
...opposite extreme, and to work physical conceptions to an excess." He utters a timely warning in adding : " Let us be cautious that, in avoiding Scylla, we do...determined physicists, armed only with kilogrammes and meters and standard clocks." * In another place he confesses : " We know nothing, or next to nothing,... | |
| Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1877 - 688 páginas
...opposite extreme, and to work physical conceptions to an excess." He utters a timely warning in adding : " Let us be cautious that, in avoiding Scylla, we do...determined physicists, armed only with kilogrammes and meters and standard clocks." * In another place he confesses : " We know nothing, or next to nothing,... | |
| Balfour Stewart - 1880 - 260 páginas
...were early heard, but yet it required long centuries of patient waiting for the practised ear of 7 the skilled musician to appreciate the mighty harmony...metres and standard clocks. Descartes, Newton, and Huygkens on a Medium. 189. In modern times Descartes, author of the vortical hypothesis, necessarily... | |
| George Claude Lorimer - 1881 - 388 páginas
...definite, after all, is very indefinite. As Professor B. Stewart, in his Conservation of Energy, says: " The universe has more than one point of view, and...determined physicists, armed only with kilogrammes, and meters, and standard clocks; " and in another place he adds: " We know nothing, or next to nothing,... | |
| Balfour Stewart - 1883 - 214 páginas
...architect, or, at least, of one who has realized, to some extent, the architect's views. 188. Theancients possessed great genius and intellectual power, but...clocks. Descartes, Newton, and Huyghens on a Medium. medium, although he became an advocate of the theory of emission. It is to Huyghens that the credit... | |
| Balfour Stewart - 1890 - 274 páginas
...the fundamental notes were early heard, but yet it required long centuries of patient waiting for tie practised ear of the skilled musician to appreciate...Medium,. 189. In modern times Descartes, author of the vortical hypothesis, necessarily presupposed the existence of a medium in inter-planetary spaces, but... | |
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