 | Allison Muri - 2007 - 321 pages
...... Nerves into the Muscles,' but material bodies and light may be the same substance transformed: 'Are not gross Bodies and Light convertible into one...Particles of Light which enter their Composition?' Newton, too, speculated that the workings of the living organism - vitality and growth, reproduction,... | |
 | Gerald Lebau - 2007 - 334 pages
...pure-magic question: "Qu. 30. Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one another, and might not bodies receive much of their activity from the...particles of light which enter their composition?" Noting that light is a series of patterned dinsity-sorce pulsations; and atoms are intricately structured... | |
 | Sir James Hopwood Jeans - 1951 - 412 pages
...without bending into the shadow, which is the nature of the rays of light.' And finally (query 30) : 'Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one...particles of light which enter their composition?' Such seem to have been Newton's final thoughts as to the nature of light, all put forward very conjecturally.... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1820 - 566 pages
...cause of the phenomena observed by Sir Isaac Newton in the place above alluded to, where he says, " Are not gross bodies, and light, convertible into...their activity from the particles of light which enter into their composition ? The change of bodies into light, and of light into bodies, is very conformable... | |
 | James Jeans - 488 pages
...suspicion, may perhaps find comfort in the following transcript from Newton's 0pticks* (1704): Query 30. Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one...their activity from the particles of light which enter into their composition ? The changing of bodies into light, and light into bodies, is very conformable... | |
 | 1820 - 618 pages
...cause of (he phenomena observed by Sir Isaac Newton in the place above alluded to, where he says, " Are not gross bodies, and light, convertible into...their activity from the particles of light which enter into llieir composition f The change of bodies into light, and of light into bodies, is very con- !... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1904 - 640 pages
...third book of Newton's ' Opticks ' and read the 30th question, which runs as follows : " Quest. 30. Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one...and may not bodies receive much of their activity fr.Mii the particles of light which enter their composition ? For all 1903.] The Cosmical Function... | |
 | 1851 - 412 pages
...demands whether " gross bodies and Light are,, not convertible into one another ; and may not bedies receive much of their activity from the particles of Light which enter into their composition ? For all fixed bodies, being heated, emit Light so long as they remain sufficiently... | |
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Are not gross Bodies and Light convertible into one another, and may not bodies receive much of their Activity from the Particles of Light which enter their Composition? 
