| 1903 - 606 pages
...on the phenomena of vacuum-tubes illuminated by electricity. He found in them, as he said, ' a new world, ' where matter may exist in a fourth state,...where light ' does not always move in straight lines.' * There is, in * Philosophical Transactions, vol. clxx. p. 164. truth, no more effectual apparatus... | |
| 1879 - 1042 pages
...good, and where light does not always move in a straight line ; but where we can never enter, -and in which we must be content to observe and experiment from the outside.' This is an immense advance on the difficult path towards a discovery of the ultimate condition of material... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1879 - 622 pages
...good, and where light does not always move in a straight line ; but wherj we can never enter, and in which we must be content to observe and experiment from the outside. Chemical Society, December 5. — TV. Gladstone, president, in the chair. — Prof. Tidy read a lengiliy... | |
| 1879 - 550 pages
...physical science a new world — a world where, for instance, the corpuscular theory of light holds good, and where light does not always move in straight lines, but where "we can never enter, and in which we must be content to observe and experiment from the outside." Perhaps the most astonishing... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1879 - 598 pages
...good, and where light does not always move in a straight line ; but where we can never enter, and in which we must be content to observe and experiment from the outside. II. " On a Machine for the Solution of Simultaneous Linear Equations." By Sir WILLIAM THOMSON, LL.D.,... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1879 - 630 pages
...good, and where light does not always move in a straight line ; but where we can never enter, and in which we must be content to observe and experiment from the outside. II. " On a Machine for the Solution of Simultaneous Linear Equations." By Sir WILLIAM THOMSON, LL.D.,... | |
| Joseph William Reynolds - 1880 - 602 pages
...good, and where light does not always move in a straight line, but where we can never enter, and in which we must be content to observe and experiment from the outside." Now we arrive at a startling result. So far from the elements being somewhat inadequate, or all used... | |
| Joseph William Reynolds - 1880 - 548 pages
...good, and where light does not always move in a straight line, but where we can never enter, and in which we must be content to observe and experiment from the outside." Now we arrive at a startling result. So far from the elements being somewhat inadequate, or all used... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1894 - 906 pages
...from any with which we were cognisant before ; but it is a " world which we can never enter, and in which we must be content to observe and experiment from the outside." Not a few of the socalled " practical" members of society would immediately rejoin, " And what, then,... | |
| 1903 - 852 pages
...investigations on the phenomena of vacuum-tubes illuminated by electricity. He found in them, as he said, "a new world, where matter may exist in a fourth state, where...where light does not always move in straight lines.'" There is, in truth, no more effectual apparatus for refined inquiries into the secrets of Nature than... | |
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