 Whatever difficulty the mind experiences in conceiving of action at sensible distances, besets it also when it attempts to conceive of action at insensible distances. Still the investigation of the point whether electric and magnetic effects were wrought...  The American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 1961868Full view - About this book
 | John Tyndall - 1868 - 210 pages
...innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum and without the mediation of anything else,...that the action is carried on by means of a medium sur* Newton's third letter to Bentley. rounding the electrified bodies. His experiments in 1837 reduced,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1868 - 192 pages
...action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe ta no man who has in philosophical matters a competent...that the action is carried on by means of a medium sur* Newton's third letter to Bentley. rounding the electrified bodies. His experiments in 1837 reduced,... | |
 | 1868 - 346 pages
...experimentally. By simple intuition he sees that action at a distance must be exerted in straight Jim.-. Gravity, he knows, will not turn a corner, but exerts...curved lines. This once proved, it would follow that theaction is carried on by means of a medium surrounding the electrified bodies. His experiments in... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 636 pages
...difficulty in his contiguous particles. And yet by transferring the conception from masses to particles wo simply lessen size and distance, but we do not alter...electrified bodies. His experiments in 1837, reduced, in his opinion, this point to demonstration. He then found that he could electrify by induction an... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 646 pages
...size and distance, but we do not alter the quality of the conception. Whatever difficulty the miud experiences in conceiving of action at sensible distances,...follow that the action is carried on by means of a medinm surrounding the electrified bodies. His experiments in 1837, reduced, in his opinion, this point... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1870 - 238 pages
...lines. Gravity, he knows, will not turn a corner, but exerts its * Newton's third letter to Bentley. pull along a right line ; hence his aim and effort...electrified bodies. His experiments in 1837 reduced, in his opinion, this point to demonstration. He then found that he could electrify, by induction, an... | |
 | Bence Jones, Michael Faraday - 1870 - 514 pages
...PERIOD OF HIS EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES. he knows, will not turn a corner, but exerts its pull 1837. along a right line ; hence his aim and effort to ascertain...electrified bodies. His experiments in 1837 reduced, in his opinion, this point to demonstration. He then found that he could electrify by induction an... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1872 - 210 pages
...innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum and without the mediation of anything else,...proved, it would follow that the action is carried on ly means of a medium sur* Newton's third letter to Bentlcy. rounding the electrified bodies. His experiments... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1873 - 202 pages
...may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an- absurdity, that I believe 110 man who lias in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking,...that the action is carried on by means of a medium sur* Newton's third letter to Bentley. rounding the electrified bodies. His experiments in 1837 reduced,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1890 - 206 pages
...innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum and without the mediation of anything else,...that the action is carried on by means of a medium sur* Newton's third letter to Bentley. rounding the electrified bodies. His experiments in 1837 reduced,... | |
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