 | 1774 - 628 pages
...Society, vol. xii., p. 620 : — " It is conceivable that the various kinds of matter now recognised as different elementary substances may possess one...ultimate or atomic molecule existing in different couditions of movement. The essential unity of matter is in harmony with the equal action of gravity... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1899 - 648 pages
...deeply and in many ways so truly. Thorpe has written of this as follows (loc. cit. 222). " He conceives that the various kinds of matter, now recognized as...molecule existing in different conditions of movement. Graham traces the harmony of this hypothesis of the essential unity of matter with the equal action... | |
 | 1879 - 318 pages
...correct. Allusion was then made to Graham's opinion that the various kinds of matter now recognised as different elementary substances may possess one...existing in different conditions of movement, the varying degrees of rapidity of this movement constituting, in fact, the difference between the elementary... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1863 - 838 pages
...which the lighter and faster gas appears always to acquire in diffusing through the porous septum. Speculative ideas respecting the constitution of matter...."metals, stones, woods, grain, salts, animal substances, &c.," are similarly accelerated in falling, and are therefore equally heavy. In the condition of gas,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1879 - 622 pages
...correct. Allusion was then made to Graham's opinion that the various kinds of matter now recognised as different elementary substances may possess one...existing in different conditions of movement, the varying degrees of rapidity of this movement constituting, in fact, the difference between the elementary... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1872 - 610 pages
...it had lost its explosive character, and acquired the property of re-inflaming a glowing splinter. " It is conceivable that the various kinds of matter,...metals, stones, woods, grain, salts, animal substances,' &c., are similarly accelerated in falling, and are therefore equally heavy. This paper of Mr. Graham's... | |
 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1872 - 628 pages
...following extracts are taken :— " It is conceivable that the various kinds of matter, now recognized &s different elementary substances, may possess one and...molecule existing in different conditions of movement. Tho essential unity of matter is an hypothesis in harmony with the equal action of gravity upon all... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1873 - 486 pages
...Speculative ideas respecting the constitution of matter," * from which the following extracts sire taken: t "It is conceivable that the various kinds of matter,...conditions of movement. The essential unity of matter is a hypothesis in harmony with the equal action of gravity upon all bodies. We know the anxiety with... | |
 | 1873 - 486 pages
...matter," • from which the following extracts are taken : * Chemical Society Jourual, xvii, p 368. "It is conceivable that the various kinds of matter,...molecule existing in different conditions of movement. Tbe essential unity of matter is a bypothesis in harmony with the equal action of gravity upon all... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1877 - 634 pages
...respecting the Constitution of Matter." He is of opinion that the various kinds of matter now recognised as different elementary substances may possess one...molecule existing in different conditions of movement. Were this ultimate atom at rest, the uniformity of matter would be perfect ; but it always possesses... | |
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It is conceivable that the various kinds of matter, now recognized as different elementary substances, may possess one and the same ultimate or atomic molecule existing in different conditions of movement. The essential unity of matter is an hypothesis... 
