| Isaac Todhunter - 1893 - 576 pages
...not listen to any suggestion that we must look upon the luminiferous ether as an ideal way of putting the thing. A real matter between us and the remotest...the way of transverse vibrations. If I knew what the magnetic theory of light is, I might be able to think of it in relation to the fundamental principles... | |
| Isaac Todhunter - 1893 - 580 pages
...not listen to any suggestion that we must look upon the luminiferous ether as an ideal way of putting the thing. A real matter between us and the remotest...stars I believe there is, and that light consists of renl motions of that matter, motions just such as are described by Fresnel and Young, motions in the... | |
| John Theodore Merz - 1912 - 848 pages
...oftheetherluminiferous ether as an ideal way of putting the thing. A real matter between us and the remoter stars I believe there is, and that light consists...the way of transverse vibrations. If I knew what the magnetic theory of light is, I might be able to think of it in relation to the fundamental principles... | |
| John Theodore Merz - 1903 - 832 pages
...as an ideal way of putting the thing, i A real matter between us and the remoter stars I believe i there is, and that light consists of real motions...the way of transverse vibrations. If I knew what the magnetic theory of light is, I might be able to think of it in relation to the fundamental principles... | |
| Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1910 - 766 pages
...not listen to any suggestion that we must look upon the luminiferous ether as an ideal way of putting the thing. A real matter between us and the remotest...the way of transverse vibrations. If I knew what the magnetic theory of light is, I might be able l to think of it in relation to the fundamental principles... | |
| Albert E. Moyer - 1983 - 248 pages
...not listen to any suggestion that we must look upon the luminiferous ether as an ideal way of putting the thing. A real matter between us and the remotest...believe there is, and that light consists of real motion of the matter."15 One member of Thomson's Baltimore audience, Henry Crew, similarly recorded... | |
| Crosbie Smith, M. Norton Wise - 1989 - 906 pages
...not listen to any suggestion that we must look upon the luminiferous ether as an ideal way of putting the thing. A real matter between us and the remotest...consists of real motions of that matter . . . motions in the way of transverse vibrations'.65 Thereafter Maxwell's 'backward step' appears only rarely, its... | |
| Crosbie Smith, M. Norton Wise - 1989 - 906 pages
...not listen to any suggestion that we must look upon the luminiferous ether as an ideal way of putting the thing. A real matter between us and the remotest...consists of real motions of that matter . . . motions in the way of transverse vibrations'.65 Thereafter Maxwell's 'backward step' appears only rarely, its... | |
| 1908 - 412 pages
...its relation to the bodies which are immersed in it. That there is a something is admitted by all. " A real matter between us and the remotest stars I...Fresnel and Young, motions in the way of transverse vibrations."11 The question arises, is this medium influenced by the passage of bodies through it,... | |
| E.J Squires - 1990 - 284 pages
...not listen to any suggestion that we must look upon the luminiferous ether as an ideal way of putting the thing. A real matter between us and the remotest...that light consists of real motions of that matter. In trying to give an example of a suitable type of substance, he suggested Scottish shoemakers' wax!... | |
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