Philosophical MagazineTaylor & Francis., 1858 |
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Page 88 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 351 - The change of motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
Page 452 - The ox-gullet is now nearly filled with a concentrated solution of common salt, to which a few drops of hydrochloric acid have been added and the...
Page 54 - Inasmuch as a molecule of water consists of two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen, the atoms of...
Page 88 - I believe I represent the received idea of the gravitating force aright, in saying, that it is a simple attractive force exerted between any two or all the particles or masses of matter, at every sensible distance, but with a strength varying inversely as the square of the distance.
Page 192 - ... combustion, by furnishing the burning matter with a greater amount of oxygen in a given volume. Unfortunately, direct experiments are wanting to test this in as satisfactory a manner as we should desire. The older experiments in the Boylean vacuum, inasmuch as they relate to the degree of rarefaction at which combustion ceased, do not give us information in regard to the rapidity of the process at the various stages of exhaustion. The same remark applies to the later...
Page 110 - We are thus forced to admit that, in an aggregate of molecules of any compound, there is an exchange constantly going on between the elements which are contained in it.
Page 234 - of man, moreover, in a state of civilization, so far, at least, as to be able to fashion clay into vessels, and to know how to harden them by the action of a strong heat.
Page 88 - Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers.
Page 489 - ... effect of sudden changes in the force of wind on the temperature of a thermometer held in it. Sometimes the thermometer was observed to rise, at other times to fall, when a gust came suddenly on. When a rise occurred, it was seldom equivalent to the effect, as ascertained by the foregoing experiments, due to the increased velocity of the air. Hence we draw the conclusion, that the actual temperature of a gust of wind is lower than that of the subsequent lull. This is probably owing to the air...