 | Andrew Ure - 1821 - 436 pages
...the existence of material fluids, severally producing the phenomena of heat, light and electricity. Substances, endowed with attraction, make themselves...are drawn towards the earth, and are therefore heavy and called ponderable; by their resistance to our bodies, producing tha sensation of feeling or touch»... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1821 - 436 pages
...the existence of materia,! fluids, severally producing the phenomena of heat, light and electricity. Substances, endowed with attraction, make themselves...this power, which we call gravitation, by which they aré drawn towards the earth, and are therefore heavy and called ponderable; by their resistance to... | |
 | 1822 - 448 pages
...the existence of material fluids, severally producing the phenomena of heat, light and electricity. Substances, endowed with attraction, make themselves...are drawn towards the earth, and are therefore heavy and ponderable ; by their resistance to our bodies, producing the sensation of feeling or touch ; and... | |
 | Edgar Fahs Smith - 1917 - 546 pages
...in the very next paragraph below that which has given rise to Professor Olmsted's embarrassment. " Substances endowed with attraction make themselves...with sounds, and the eye by a modified reflection of light." Will the Professor, after reading this sentence, require any further information respecting... | |
 | Edgar Fahs Smith - 1917 - 540 pages
...the existence of material fluids, severally producing the phenomena of heat, light and electricity. Substances, endowed with attraction, make themselves...are drawn towards the earth, and are therefore heavy and ponderable; by their resistance to our bodies, producing the sensation of feeling or touch; and... | |
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I do firmly believe in the existence of material fluids, severally producing the phenomena of heat, light and electricity. Substances, endowed with attraction, make themselves known to us, by that species of this power, which we call gravitation, by which... 