| John Towers (C.M.H.S.) - 1839 - 746 pages
...sound, and observing that analogies are favourable to the vibratory hypothesis, Dr. Young adds: — " Those, however, who look up with unqualified reverence...partiality for the convenient, but superficial and inaccurate, modes of reasoning, which have been founded on the favourite hypothesis of the existence... | |
| 1830 - 1112 pages
...running directly counter to what analogy might lead us to expect. The same author remarks that " those who look up with unqualified reverence to the dogmas...partiality for the convenient, but superficial and inaccurate, modes of reasoning which have been founded on the favourite hypothesis of the existence... | |
| Thomas Young - 1845 - 654 pages
...jar may be discharged, either by heating it, or by causing it to sound by the friction of the finger. All these analogies are certainly favourable to the...partiality for the convenient, but superficial and inaccurate, modes of reasoning, which have been founded on the favourite hypothesis of the existence... | |
| George Peacock - 1855 - 602 pages
...may be discharged, either by heating it, or by causing it to sound by the friction of the finger. " All these analogies are certainly favourable to the...partiality for the convenient but superficial and inaccurate modes of reasoning, which have been founded on the favourite hypothesis of the existence... | |
| John Henry Pepper - 1869 - 722 pages
...when the sound of another string, which is in unison with it, is transmitted to it through the air. present. Those, however, who look up with unqualified reverence to the dogmas of the modern school of chemistry will probably long retain a partulity for the convenient, but superficial and inaccurate,... | |
| John Henry Pepper - 1877 - 764 pages
...unison with it, is transmitted to it through the air. " All these analogies are certainly favourable 10 the opinion of the vibratory nature of heat, which...unqualified reverence to the dogmas of the modern school of chemistry will probably long retain a partiality for the convenient, but superficial and... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1887 - 638 pages
...he supposed the molecules of bodies to be shaken asunder by heat. " All these analogies," he says, " are certainly favourable to the opinion of the vibratory...authority of the greatest philosophers of past times and by the most sober reasoners of the present." In anticipation of Dr. Wells, Young had observed and recorded... | |
| John Tyndall - 1892 - 522 pages
...which he supposed the molecules of bodies to be shaken asunder by heat. 'All these analogies,' he says, 'are certainly favourable to the opinion of the vibratory...authority of the greatest philosophers of past times and by the most sober reasoners of the present.' In anticipation of Dr. Wells, Young bad observed and recorded... | |
| 1884 - 852 pages
...when the sound of another string, which is in uniaon with it, is transmitted to it through the air. All these analogies are certainly favourable to the...sufficiently sanctioned by the authority of the greatest philsophers of past times and of the most sober reasoners of the present. Those, however, who look... | |
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