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" If the results of mere speculation which I have collected are found to be of any use to experimental philosophers, in arranging and interpreting their results, they will have served their purpose, and a mature theory, in which physical facts will be physically... "
A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century - Page 81
by John Theodore Merz - 1903
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Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Cambridge Philosophical Society - 1864 - 520 pages
...physical nature of electricity, or adding anything to that which has been already proved by experiment. By referring everything to the purely geometrical...interpreting their results, they will have served their purpose, and a mature theory, in which physical facts will be physically explained, will be formed...
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Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Cambridge Philosophical Society - 1864 - 518 pages
...physical nature of electricity, or adding anything to that which has been already proved by experiment. By referring everything to the purely geometrical...interpreting their results, they will have served their purpose, and a mature theory, in which physical facts will be physically explained, will be formed...
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James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics

Richard Glazebrook - 1896 - 234 pages
...physical nature of electricity, or adding anything to that which has been already proved by experiment. " By referring everything to the purely geometrical...interpreting their results, they will have served their purpose, and a mature theory, in which physical facts will be physically explained, will be formed...
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Argon and Newton : a Realisation

W. Sedgwick - 1896 - 308 pages
...Forces," " The action of Closed Currents at a Distance," and " Electric Currents produced by Induction," " by referring everything to the purely geometrical idea of the motion of an imaginary fluid," as he says. — Ibid., pp. 160 — 186. In giving thus an " outline of Faraday's electrical theories...
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The Edge of Objectivity: An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas

Charles Coulston Gillispie - 1960 - 596 pages
...course, is a return from the algebraic or analytical to the palpable and the geometric imagination. By referring everything to the purely geometrical...premature theory professing to explain the cause of phenomena. If the results of mere speculation which I have collected are found to be of any use to...
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Beyond the Mechanical Universe: From Electricity to Modern Physics

Richard P. Olenick, Tom M. Apostol, David L. Goodstein - 1986 - 589 pages
...light, and heat flow. By focusing on the mathematical laws he could attain generality and precision and "avoid the dangers arising from a premature theory...professing to explain the cause of the phenomena." Whereas attempts to explain action-at-a-distance seemed mystifying and even occult, the mathematical...
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A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 pages
...Stewart and PG Tait Paradoxical Philosophy in Nature. Also Maxwell's Collected Work, 1869, II, p 760 84 By referring everything to the purely geometrical...from a premature theory professing to explain the causes of phenomena. If the results of mere speculation which I have collected are found to be of any...
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Innovation in Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory: Molecular Vortices ...

Daniel M. Siegel - 2003 - 244 pages
...explained or accounted for by that picture. Maxwell had been explicit and insistent on this point: "By referring everything to the purely geometrical...idea of the motion of an imaginary fluid, I hope to ... avoid the dangers arising from a premature theory professing to explain the cause of the phenomena."...
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The Geometry of Biological Time

Arthur T. Winfree - 2001 - 810 pages
...precondition and thus do not fall within the purview of this chapter. A: Unperturbed Dynamics Introduction By referring everything to the purely geometrical...premature theory professing to explain the cause of phenomena. If the results ot mere speculation which I have collected are found to be of any use to...
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The Geometry of Biological Time

Arthur T. Winfree - 2001 - 810 pages
...precondition and thus do not fall within the purview of this chapter. A: Unperturbed Dynamics Introduction By referring everything to the purely geometrical idea of the motion of an imaginary Quid, I hope to attain generality and precision, and to avoid the dangers arising from a premature...
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