 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1802 - 638 pages
...would scarce make any sensible altera" tion in the motions of the planets, in ten thousand years. " If any one would ask how a medium can be so rare, let...me— how an electric body can by friction emit an exha" lation so rare and subtile, and yet so potent ? — And how the " effluvia of a magnet can pass... | |
 | George G. Carey - 1825 - 274 pages
...resistance would scarce make any sensible alteration in the motions of the planets in ten thousand years. If any one would ask how a medium can be so rare, let...resistance, and yet turn a magnetic needle beyond the glass ?" This is a quotation which has been many times made by those philosophers who favour the undulatory... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 pages
...resistance would scarce make any sensible alteration in the motion of the planets in ten thousand years. If any one would ask how a medium can be so rare, let...and yet turn a magnetic needle beyond the glass?" It may appear surprising to those who have not studied the subject, that liffht should be propagated... | |
 | John Joseph Fahie - 1884 - 596 pages
...push against the finger so as to be felt." And again, in the 27th query, he says : — " Let him also tell me how an electric body can, by friction, emit...exhalation so rare and subtile, and yet so potent, as by its emission to cause no sensible diminution of the weight of the electric body, and to be expanded... | |
 | Sir Oliver Lodge - 1889 - 450 pages
...Atmosphere can be above an hundred thousand times rarer than Gold. Let him also tell me how an electrick Body can by Friction emit an Exhalation so rare and subtile, and yet so potent, as by its Emission to cause no sensible Diminution of the weight of the electrick Body, and to be expanded... | |
 | Sir Oliver Lodge - 1889 - 446 pages
...a sensible alteration in the Motions of the Planets in ten thousand Years. If any one would ask me how a Medium can be so rare, let him tell me how the Air in the upper parts of the Atmosphere can be above an hundred thousand times rarer than Gold.... | |
 | Park Benjamin - 1895 - 638 pages
...and dense, he refers the critic to the electric and the magnet. "Let him also tell me," says Newton, "how an electric body can, by friction, emit an exhalation, so rare and subtle, and yet so potent, as by its emission to cause no sensible diminution in the weight of the... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1915 - 672 pages
...resistance would scarce make any sensible alteration in the motions of the planets in ten thousand years. If any one would ask how a medium can be so rare, let him tell me how the air in the upper parts of the atmosphere can be above hundred thousand times rarer than gold. Let... | |
 | James Henry Ferguson - 1922 - 404 pages
...make a sensible alteration in the motion of the planets in ten thousand years. If any one would ask me how a medium can be so rare, let him tell me how the air in the upper parts of the atmosphere can be above an hundred thousand times rarer than gold.... | |
 | History of Science Society - 1928 - 394 pages
...resistance would scarce make any sensible alteration in the Motions of the Planets in ten thousand Years. If any one would ask how a Medium can be so rare, let him tell me how the Air, in the upper parts of the Atmosphere, can be above an hundred thousand times rarer than Gold... | |
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Let him also tell me how an electrick Body can by Friction emit an Exhalation so rare and subtile, and yet so potent, as by its Emission to cause no sensible Diminution of the weight of the electrick Body, and to be expanded through a Sphere whose Diameter... 
