History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time, Volume 3J. W. Parker, 1857 - Science |
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... assumed in the foundation of the theory , were explained by it ; a circumstance which , as we have seen , gave the final stamp of truth to the theories of astronomy and optics . Now we appear to have such confirmation , in the effect of ...
... assumed in the foundation of the theory , were explained by it ; a circumstance which , as we have seen , gave the final stamp of truth to the theories of astronomy and optics . Now we appear to have such confirmation , in the effect of ...
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... assumed cause in the astronomical case depended on taking the right law ; but the electrical theory could be ... assumption that it is 2. Experimenters tried to esta- blish this in various ways . Robison , in 1769 , had already proved ...
... assumed cause in the astronomical case depended on taking the right law ; but the electrical theory could be ... assumption that it is 2. Experimenters tried to esta- blish this in various ways . Robison , in 1769 , had already proved ...
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... assumed the actual case to be intermediate between these two . By such artifices he was able to show that the results of his experiments and of his calculations gave an agreement sufficiently near to entitle him to consider the theory ...
... assumed the actual case to be intermediate between these two . By such artifices he was able to show that the results of his experiments and of his calculations gave an agreement sufficiently near to entitle him to consider the theory ...
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... assumed the same distribution , ( namely , a surface distribution , ) as if the fluids could permeate the whole body , instead of the ' magnetic elements ' only . Coulomb , indeed , had not expressly noticed the result , that the ...
... assumed the same distribution , ( namely , a surface distribution , ) as if the fluids could permeate the whole body , instead of the ' magnetic elements ' only . Coulomb , indeed , had not expressly noticed the result , that the ...
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... assumption , that magnetism is distributed throughout the mass of the earth in an unknown manner . On this assumption he obtains a function V , by the differentials of which the elements of the magnetic force at any point will be ...
... assumption , that magnetism is distributed throughout the mass of the earth in an unknown manner . On this assumption he obtains a function V , by the differentials of which the elements of the magnetic force at any point will be ...
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Page 500 - Each cast at the other, as when two black clouds, With heaven's artillery fraught, come rattling on Over the Caspian ; then stand front to front, Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air...
Page 505 - The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted, in His works, any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration.
Page 92 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven ; The roof was fretted gold.
Page 485 - The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts, then springs, as broke from bonds, And rampant shakes his brinded mane...
Page 385 - Zoology has," he says*, in the outset of his Regne Animal, " a principle of reasoning which is peculiar to it, and which it employs with advantage on many occasions : this is the principle of the conditions of existence, vulgarly called the principle of final causes. As nothing can exist if it do not combine all the conditions which render its existence possible, the different parts of each being must be co-ordinated in such a manner as to render the total being possible, not only in itself, but...
Page 91 - Centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures better hid. Soon had his crew Opened into the hill a spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold.
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Page 485 - ... but he has nowhere, I think, so described this process as to make it appear in what department of science we are to place the hypothesis. Are these new species created by the production, at long intervals, of an offspring different in species from the parents ? Or are the species so created produced without parents ? Are they gradually evolved from some embryo substance ? Or do they suddenly start from the ground, as in the creation of the poet?
Page 485 - Out of the ground up rose, As from his lair, the wild beast where he wons In forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den.
Page 395 - Though our comparison might be bold, it would be just, if we were to assert, that the English language is a conglomerate of Latin words, bound together in a Saxon cement; the fragments of the Latin being partly portions introduced directly from the parent quarry, with all their sharp edges, and partly pebbles of the same material, obscured and shaped by long rolling in a Norman or some other channel.