 Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers, virtues, or forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the rays of light for reflecting, refracting, and inflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the phenomena...  Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ... - Página 311824Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 352 páginas
...thought is at a later period followed out further in one of the Queries at the end of the Opticks9. 'Have not the small particles of bodies certain Powers,...producing a great part of the phenomena of nature?' And a little further on he proceeds to apply this expressly to chemical changes. ' When Salt of Tartar... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1877 - 534 páginas
...great an absurdity" that no competent thinker could " ever fall into it," he despairingly asks : " Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers,...virtues, or forces, by which they act at a distance ? .... What I call 'attraction' may be performed by impulse, or by some other means unknown to me.... | |
 | Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) - 1883 - 440 páginas
...repudiated by him a quarter of a century later, when with a graver wisdom he asked the question : " Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers,...virtues, or forces, by which they act at a distance?" (Optics. 2d edition. 1717 : book III, query 31.) A recantation never cited by the kinematist. another... | |
 | 1884 - 828 páginas
...absurdity ; but we hear less frequently that, in his " Optics," the same philosopher subsequently asked " Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers,...virtues, or forces, by which they act at a distance?" Not unjustly does the author remark, " There is no mystery in the world of mind that is not fully paralleled... | |
 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - 1884 - 798 páginas
...absurdity ; but we hear less frequently that, in his " Optics," the same philosopher subsequently asked " Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers,...virtues, or forces, by which they act at a distance?" Not unjustly does the author remark, " There is no mystery in the world of mind that is not fully paralleled... | |
 | Malcolm MacColl - 1889 - 394 páginas
...in his rashness denounced as an absurdity. " Have not then small particles of bodies," he asked, " certain powers, virtues, or forces, by which they act at a distance ? " We are now all familiar with action at a distance in the influence of the moon on the tides, and... | |
 | 1890 - 612 páginas
...who, a quarter of a century later, with riper experience and wisdom, and a broader vision, asked, " Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers,...virtues, or forces by which they act at a distance ?" The physicist says, " No !" He believes it not to be a fact, but only an apparent difficulty. In... | |
 | 1890 - 492 páginas
...distance, as to concede to small particles what he could not concede to large ones, namely, " some certain powers, virtues or forces by which they act at a distance." Since Newton, almost every philosopher has speculated upon this very unsatisfactory subject. In 1734... | |
 | George Frederick Wright - 1897 - 396 páginas
...absurd that no compeLater Views. . r tent thinker could ever fall into it, and despairingly asks, " Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers,...virtues, or forces, by which they act at a distance? . . . What I call attraction may be performed by impulse, or by some other means unknown to me. I use... | |
 | 1897 - 840 páginas
...declared to be so absurd that no competent thinker could ever fall into it ; and despairingly asks, " Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers, virtues, or forces, by which tliev act at a distance? . . . What I call attraction may be performed by impulse, or by some other... | |
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