...with our general experience, and which does not shock our conceptions of matter and force ? In 1 798, Count Rumford wrote thus : " Nobody surely, in his...the Berlin Academy in 1782, in which he expounded bis mechanical theory of gravitation, to which he had devoted sixtythree years of his life. In a posthumous...

...the human intellect ? But how ample and how interesting is the field that is given us to explore ! Nobody, surely, in his sober senses, has ever pretended to understand the mechanism of gravitation ; and yet what sublime discoveries was our "immortal Newton enabled to make, merely by the investigation...

...particular kind of motion which has been supposed to constitute heat is excited, continued, and propagated. Nobody surely in his sober senses has ever pretended to understand the mechanism of gravitation, and yet what sublime discovery was our immortal Newton enabled to make merely by the investigation...

...human intellect? But how ample and how interesting is the field that is given us to explore ! _^ " Nobody, surely, in his sober senses, has ever pretended to understand the mechanism of gravitation ; and yet what sublime discoveries was our immortal Newton enabled to make, merely by the investigation...

...to the consideration of my readers." — Newton's Third Letter to Bentley, February 25th, 1692-3. " Nobody surely, in his sober senses, has ever pretended to " understand the mechanism of gravitation ; and yet what sublime " discoveries was our immortal Newton enabled to make, merely " by the investigation...

...diminished with the square of the distance to be a violation of the principle of the conservation of energy. Must we then content ourselves with the naked facts...views more fully. He supposed that bodies were pressed toward one another by the everlasting pelting of ultramundane atoms, inward bound from the immensity...

...physical meaning which he attaches to his velocity. Gauss abandoned his researches in electromagnetism because he could not satisfy his mind in regard to...the Berlin Academy in 1782, in which he expounded hia mechanical theory of gravitation, to which he had devoted sixtythree years of his life. In a posthumous...

...seuls s'en occuper anjourdhui." Graf Rumford sagt in einer Abhandlung in den Philos. Transact (1798): „Nobody surely, in his sober senses has ever pretended to understand the mechanism of gravitation, and yet, what sublime discoveries was our immortal Newton enabled to make, merely by the investigation...

...application of mathematics to any subject. Maxwell and Thomson are liberal in their acknowledgments to Faraday. Mr. Thomson says : " Faraday, without...published by the Berlin Academy in 1782, in which he expo'uutled his mechanical theory of gravitation, to which he had devoted sixty-three years of his...

...to the consideration of my readers." — NEWTON'S Third Letter to Bentley, February 25th, 1692-3. " Nobody surely, in his sober senses, has ever pretended to understand the mechanism of gravitation ; and yet what sublime discoveries was our immortal Newton enabled to make, merely by the investigation...