Faraday as a DiscovererLongmans, Green, and Company, 1877 - 208 pages |
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Page 67 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
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Page 64 - ... into the electric current, or the current into chemical force. The beautiful experiments of Seebeck and Peltier show the convertibility of heat and electricity ; and others by Oersted and myself show the convertibility of electricity and magnetism. But in no case, not even in those of the Gymnotus and Torpedo, is there a pure creation or a production of power without a corresponding exhaustion of something to supply it.
Page 173 - LIGHT AND ELECTRICITY. Notes of Two Courses of Lectures before the Royal Institution of Great Britain. One vol., I2mo. Cloth, $1.25. " In thus clearly and sharply stating the fundamental principles of Electrical aiid Optical Science, Prof. Tyndall has earned the cordial thanks of all interested in education."— From AMERICAN EDITOR'S PREFACE.