 | William Whewell - 1837 - 556 pages
...the emissiontheory of light, we see exactly what we may consider as the natural course of things in the career of a false theory. Such a theory may, to...meet ; but every new class of facts requires a new supposition, — an addition to the machinery ; and as observation goes on, these incoherent appendages... | |
 | William Whewell - 1840 - 606 pages
...as in the theory of solid epicycles, we see what we may consider as the natural course of things in the career of a false theory. Such a theory may, to...meet ; but every new class of facts requires a new supposition — an addition to the machinery : and as observation goes on, these incoherent appendages... | |
 | William Whewell - 1840 - 606 pages
...it was at first contrived to meet ; but every new class of facts requires a new supposition — an addition to the machinery : and as observation goes...overwhelm and upset the original frame-work. Such has . been the hypothesis of the material emission of light. In its original form it explained reflection... | |
 | John Elliott Cairnes - 1857 - 204 pages
...the emission- theory of light, we see exactly what we may consider as the natural course of things in the career of a false theory. Such a theory may, to...meet ; but every new class of facts requires a new supposition, — an addition to the machinery ; and as observation goes on, these incoherent appendages... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 682 pages
...the emission-theory of light, we see exactly what we may consider as the natural course of things in the career of a false theory. Such a theory may, to...meet ; but every new class of facts requires a new supposition, — an addition to the machinery ; and as observation goes on, these incoherent appendages... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 410 pages
...as in the theory of solid epicycles, we see what we may consider as the natural course of things in the career of a false theory. Such a theory may, to...meet ; but every new class of facts requires a new supposition — an addition to the machinery : and as observation goes on, these incoherent appendages... | |
 | William Whewell - 1866 - 680 pages
...the emission-theory of light, wo see eiactly what we may consider as the natural course of things in the career of a false theory. Such a theory may, to...phenomena which it was at first contrived to meet; but even' new class of facts requires a new supposition, — an addition to tlie machinery ; and as observation... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1870 - 560 pages
...complicated and embarrassed in its attempts to explain new facts. ' Such a theory,' says Whewell,8 ' may, to a certain extent, explain the phenomena which...at first contrived to meet ; but every new class of 5 Norton's Astronomy, page 119. : History Inductive Sciences. Vol. II, Optics- page 404. facts requires... | |
 | John Elliot Cairnes - 1869 - 208 pages
...the emission-theory of light, we see exactly what we may consider as the natural course of things in the career of a false theory. Such a theory may, to...meet ; but every new class of facts requires a new supposition, — an addition to the machinery ; and as observation goes on, these incoherent appendages... | |
 | George Price Hays - 1877 - 184 pages
...the emission theory of light, we see exactly what we may consider as the natural course of things in the career of a false theory. Such a theory may, to...meet ; but every new class of facts requires a new supposition — an addition to the machinery ; and as observation goes on, these incoherent appendages... | |
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When we look at the history of the emission-theory of light, we see exactly what we may consider as the natural course of things in the career of a false theory. Such a theory may, to a certain extent, explain the phenomena which it was at first contrived... 
