 | 1868 - 676 pages
...us now place the grain of corn in the earth and subject it to a certain degree of warmth. In other words, let the molecules, both of the corn and of...result of this interaction. A bud is formed ; this bud reaches the surface, where it is exposed to the sun's rays, which are also to be regarded as a... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1868 - 664 pages
...us now place the grain of corn in the earth and subject it to a certain degree of warmth. In other words, let the molecules, both of the corn and of...result of this interaction. A bud is formed ; this bud reaches the surface, where it is exposed to the sun's rays, which are also to be regarded as a... | |
 | 1868 - 978 pages
...polarized light, let us place it in the eart'i and subject it to a certain degree of warmth. In other words, let the molecules, both of the corn and of...earth, be kept in a state of agitation — for warmth, as most of you know, is, in the eye of science, tremulous molecular motion. Under these circumstances,... | |
 | 1868 - 596 pages
...polarised light, let us place it in the earth and subject it to a certain degree of warmth. In other words, let the molecules, both of the corn and of...earth, be kept in a state of agitation ; for warmth, as most of you know, is, in the eye of science, tremulous molecular motion. Under these circumstances,... | |
 | 1869 - 844 pages
...place," he says, " the grain of corn in the earth, and subject it to a certain degree of warmth. In other words, let the molecules, both of the corn and of...the result of this interaction. A bud is formed," which under the influence of the specific motion of the sun's rays feeds upon the carbonic acid and... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1869 - 414 pages
...other. " Let us now place our corn in the earth, and subject it to a certain degree of warmth ; in other words, let the molecules both of the corn and of the...under these circumstances the grain and the substances surrounding it interact, and a molecular architecture is the result. " A bud is formed, which reaches... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1869 - 858 pages
...polarized light, let us place it in the earth and subject it to a certain degree of warmth. In other words, let the molecules, both of the corn and of...earth, be kept in a state of agitation ; for warmth, as most of you know, is, in the eye of science, tremulous molecular motion. Under these circumstances,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1869 - 414 pages
...would be a poor philosophy to invoke an external agent in the one case, and to reject it in the other. state of agitation (for warmth is, in the eye of science,...under these circumstances the grain and the substances surrounding it interact, and a molecular architecture is the result. " A bud is formed, which reaches... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1869 - 862 pages
...polarized light, let us place it in the earth and subject it to a certain degree of warmth. In other words, let the molecules, both of the corn and of...earth, be kept in a state of agitation ; for warmth, as most of you know, is, in the eye of science, tremulous molecular motion. Under these circumstances,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1869 - 416 pages
...be a poor philosophy to invoke an external agent in the one case, and to reject it in the other. 18 state of agitation (for warmth is, in the eye of science,...under these circumstances the grain and the substances surrounding it interact, and a molecular architecture is the result. "A bud is formed, which reaches... | |
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Instead of cutting our grain of corn into thin slices, and subjecting it to the action of polarized light, let us place it in the earth, and subject it to a certain degree of warmth. In other words, let the molecules, both of the corn and of the surrounding... 
