 | Sir Joseph Paxton - 1842 - 496 pages
...according to predisposing circumstances ; GARDENING AS Л SCIENCE. 227 and on this point Faraday says, " I cannot refrain from recalling here the beautiful idea put forth, I believe, by Berzelius, in his development of his views of the electro-chemical theory of affinity — that the heat and light... | |
 | William Whewell - 1847 - 756 pages
...gradually relinquishing such views. In January, 1834, he speaks generally of an hypothesis of this kind*. " I cannot refrain from recalling here the beautiful idea put forth, I believe by Berzelius, in his developement of his views of the electro-chemical theory of affinity, that the heat and light... | |
 | William Charles Henry - 1854 - 346 pages
...electricity naturally associated with them." Dr. Faraday, it is true, adds, " But I must confess, I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy...especially when compound bodies are under consideration." The disciples of Dalton may, however, it strikes me, fairly contend that the fact of equal quantities... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 356 pages
...gradually relinquishing such views. In January, 1834, he speaks generally of an hypothesis of this kind2 : 'I cannot refrain from recalling here the beautiful idea put forth, I believe by Berzelius, in his development of his views of the electro-chemical theory of affinity, that the heat and light... | |
 | John Theodore Merz - 1896 - 520 pages
...action have equal quantities of electricity naturally associated with them. But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy...especially when compound bodies are under consideration." Ten years later, in his ' Speculation touching Conduction and the Nature of Matter' (see 'Exper. Res.,'... | |
 | John Theodore Merz - 1896 - 484 pages
...action have equal quantities of electricity naturally associated with them. But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom ; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it v very difficult to form a clear idea of their nature, especially when compound bodies are under conaideration."... | |
 | John Theodore Merz - 1907 - 482 pages
...action have equal quantities of electricity naturally associated with them. But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy...especially when compound bodies are under consideration." Ten years later, in his 'Speculation touching Conduction and the Nature of Matter' (see 'Exper. Res.,'... | |
 | Edmund Taylor Whittaker - 1910 - 502 pages
...equal quantities of electricity naturally associated with them. " But," he added, " I must confess I am jealous of the term atom : for though it is very easy...especially when compound bodies are under consideration." These discoveries and ideas tended to confirm Faraday in preferring, among the rival theories of the... | |
 | Olive Annie Wheeler - 1916 - 334 pages
...Cavendish hesitated to endow atoms with physical reality. " I must confess," writes Faraday, " I am jealous of the term ' atom ' ; for though it is very...especially when compound bodies are under consideration." : Yet it must be admitted that afterwards, when the particular difficulty to which Faraday refers had... | |
 | Dorothy Mabel Turner - 1927 - 208 pages
...chemical action, have equal quantities of clcctricitv naturally associated with than. But I confess lam jealous of the term atom ; for though it is very easy...especially when compound bodies are under consideration.' Thus Faraday, writing in 1833, pictured to himself a natural unit or ' atom ' of electricity associated... | |
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Or, if we adopt the atomic theory or phraseology, then the atoms of bodies which are equivalents to each other in their ordinary chemical action, have equal quantities of electricity naturally associated with them. But I must confess I am jealous of the... 
