 | 1874 - 802 pàgines
...with our general experience, and which does not shock our conceptions of matter and force ? In 1 798, Count Rumford wrote thus : " Nobody surely, in his...the Berlin Academy in 1782, in which he expounded bis mechanical theory of gravitation, to which he had devoted sixtythree years of his life. In a posthumous... | |
 | Benjamin Graf von Rumford - 1870 - 608 pàgines
...the human intellect ? But how ample and how interesting is the field that is given us to explore ! Nobody, surely, in his sober senses, has ever pretended to understand the mechanism of gravitation ; and yet what sublime discoveries was our "immortal Newton enabled to make, merely by the investigation... | |
 | George Edward Ellis - 1871 - 750 pàgines
...human intellect? But how ample and how interesting is the field that is given us to explore ! _^ " Nobody, surely, in his sober senses, has ever pretended to understand the mechanism of gravitation ; and yet what sublime discoveries was our immortal Newton enabled to make, merely by the investigation... | |
 | Bence Jones - 1871 - 450 pàgines
...particular kind of motion which has been supposed to constitute heat is excited, continued, and propagated. Nobody surely in his sober senses has ever pretended to understand the mechanism of gravitation, and yet what sublime discovery was our immortal Newton enabled to make merely by the investigation... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1872 - 914 pàgines
...to the consideration of my readers." — Newton's Third Letter to Bentley, February 25th, 1692-3. " Nobody surely, in his sober senses, has ever pretended to " understand the mechanism of gravitation ; and yet what sublime " discoveries was our immortal Newton enabled to make, merely " by the investigation... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1875 - 390 pàgines
...diminished with the square of the distance to be a violation of the principle of the conservation of force. Must we then content ourselves with the naked facts...views more fully. He supposed that bodies were pressed towards one another by the everlasting pelting of ultramundane atoms, inward bound from the immensity... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1875 - 962 pàgines
...diminished with the square of the distance to be a violation of the principle of the conservation of force. Must we then content ourselves with the naked facts...views more fully. He supposed that bodies were pressed towards one another by the everlasting pelting of ultramundane atoms, inward bound from the immensity... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1875 - 392 pàgines
...diminished with the square of the distance to be a violation of the principle of the conservation of force. Must we then content ourselves with the naked facts...the Berlin Academy in 1782, in which he expounded hia mechanical theory of gravitation, to which he had devoted sixtythree years of his life. In a posthumous... | |
 | Králová česká společnost nauk - 1878 - 656 pàgines
...seuls s'en occuper anjourdhui." Graf Rumford sagt in einer Abhandlung in den Philos. Transact (1798): „Nobody surely, in his sober senses has ever pretended to understand the mechanism of gravitation, and yet, what sublime discoveries was our immortal Newton enabled to make, merely by the investigation... | |
 | 1875 - 800 pàgines
...diminished with the square of the distance to be a violation of the principle of the conservation of force. Must we, then, content ourselves with the naked facts...published by the Berlin Academy in 1782, in which he expo'uutled his mechanical theory of gravitation, to which he had devoted sixty-three years of his... | |
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... of the principle of the conservation of force. Must we then content ourselves with the naked facts of gravitation, as Comte did, or is it possible to resolve them into a mode of action in harmony with our general experience, and which does not shock... 
