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" From a similar investigation of all the other known physical and chemical processes, we arrive at the conclusion, that nature, as a whole, possesses a store of force which cannot in any way be either increased or diminished, and that therefore the quantity... "
The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art - Page 128
1858
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The Correlation and Conservation of Forces: A Series of Expositions, by Prof ...

Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 500 pages
...possesses a store of force which cannot in any way be either increased or diminished. And that, therefore, the quantity of force in nature is just as eternal...the wind, which drive our mills, the forest and the cealbed, which supply our steam engines and warm our rooms, are to us the bearers of a small portion...
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The Correlation and Conservation of Forces: A Series of Expositions, by Prof ...

Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 512 pages
...possesses a store of force which cannot in any way be either increased or diminished. And that, therefore, the quantity of force in nature is just as eternal...We cannot create mechanical force, but we may help oureelves from the general store-house of Nature. The brook and the wind, which drive our mills, the...
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The Correlation and Conservation of Forces: A Series of Expositions, by Prof ...

Edward Livingston Youmans - 1870 - 484 pages
...a store of force which cannot in any way be either increased or diminished. And that, there-- fore, the quantity of force in nature is just as eternal...have named the general law " The Principle of the Conser vation of Force." We cannot create mechanical force, but we may help ourselves from the general...
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Proceedings, Volume 18

American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1870 - 368 pages
...the like. Scientists are now of accord that "force can neither be created nor destroyed," and that "the quantity of force in nature is just as eternal and unalterable as the quantity of matter." Its various forms are eminently convertible, yet utterly indestructible. And to avoid that fruitful...
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Popular lectures on scientific subjects, tr. by E. Atkinson. [1st], Volume 1

Hermann Ludwig F. von Helmholtz - 1873 - 424 pages
...possesses a store of force which cannot in any way be either increased or diminished, and that therefore the quantity of force in Nature is just as eternal...mills, the forest and the coal-bed, which supply our steam-engines and warm our rooms, are to us the bearers of a small portion of the great natural supply...
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Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects

Helmholtz - 1873 - 452 pages
...possesses a store of force which cannot in any way be either increased or diminished, and that therefore the quantity of force in Nature is just as eternal...mills, the forest and the coal-bed, which supply our steam-engines and warm our rooms, are to us the bearers of a small portion of the great natural supply...
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Two Thousand Years After: Or, A Talk in a Cemetery

James Edmund Garretson - 1876 - 120 pages
...possesses a store of force which cannot in any way be either increased or diminished ; and that therefore the quantity of force in nature is just as eternal and unalterable as the quantity of matter. Heed an example, Cebes, and consider a * Leibnitz. f Schelling. J Helmholtz. jelly-fish. Here is a...
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Theism and Evolution: An Examination of Modern Speculative Theories as ...

Joseph Smith Van Dyke - 1886 - 494 pages
...Nature as a whole possesses a store of force which cannot in any way be either increased or diminished. The quantity of force in nature is just as eternal and unalterable as the quantity of matter. . . . From the fact that no portion of force can be absolutely lost, it does not follow that a portion...
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The Genesis of Nature Considered in the Light of Mr. Spencer's Philosophy ...

Thomas Hubbard Musick - 1890 - 390 pages
...possesses a store of force which cannot in any way be increased or diminished, and that, therefore, the quantity of force in nature is just as eternal and unalterable as the quantity of matter."—Interaction of Natural Forces. Prof. Merriman says: " Not an impulse of motion, of light,...
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Magnetism and a New Cosmography

Geoorge W. Holley - 1894 - 312 pages
...whole possesses a store of force which cannot in any way be increased or diminished. * * * Therefore the quantity of force in nature is just as eternal and unalterable as the quantity of matter. According to this we can divide the total force-store of the universe into two parts, one of which...
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