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" The phenomena in these exhausted tubes reveal to physical science a new world — a world where matter may exist in a fourth state... "
Makers of Science: Electricity & Magnetism - Page 158
by Dorothy Mabel Turner - 1927 - 184 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 198

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...
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

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...
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Nature, Volume 19

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...
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Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine, Volume 20

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...
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 28

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.,...
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 28

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.,...
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The Supernatural in Nature: A Verification by Free Use of Science

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...
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The Supernatural in Nature: A Verification by Free Use of Science

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...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 59; Volume 122

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,...
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The Living Age, Volume 239

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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