Faraday as a DiscovererD. Appleton and Company, 1890 - 171 pages |
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ALEXANDER BAIN APPLETON atoms attraction axis battery beam bismuth Bond Street caused cells character chemical chloride circuit Cloth conductor contact theory crystal Davy decomposed diamagnetic bodies direction discovery disk distance earth effect electric current Electro-chemical Decomposition electro-magnet endeavoured ERNST HAECKEL ether excited experimental experiments fact Faraday's galvanometer gases gravity heat heavy glass honour idea Illustrations induced currents induction insulator intellect investigation iron JOHN TYNDALL JOSEPH LE CONTE lecture letter Leyden jar lines of force lines of magnetic liquid luminiferous ether magne-crystallic action magnetic and diamagnetic magnetic field magnetic force Magneto-electric matter memoir metals Michael Faraday mind molecular molecules motion natural netic observed optical oxygen paper particles passed phenomena philosopher polarized poles position produced Professor quantity regarding repulsion researches rotation round Royal Institution Royal Society scientific space sphere substance thought tion tricity tube turmeric Tyndall vibrations voltaic pile wire
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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.
Page 81 - I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common, I believe, with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various forms under which the forces of matter are made manifest have one common origin ; or, in other words, are so directly related and mutually dependent, that they are convertible, as it were, into one another, and possess equivalents of power in their action.
Page 54 - ... prompted by certain analogies, we ascribe electrical phenomena to the action of a peculiar fluid, sometimes flowing, sometimes at rest. Such conceptions have their advantages and their disadvantages; they afford peaceful lodging to the intellect for a time, but they also circumscribe it, and by and by, when the mind has grown too large for its lodging, it often finds difficulty in breaking down the walls of what has become its prison instead of its home...