Argon and Newton : a RealisationW. B. Whittingham, 1896 - 258 páginas |
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able amongst Argon and Helium arguing from phenomena atomic weight atoms of matter attached ball bodies bound pool building built carbon chains of pools chemical combination chlorine chlorine atoms Clerk Maxwell cohesion conclusions craters direction dislodge divalent domain element of atomic Entity fact Faraday flat places fluid corpuscles fluid explanation fluid tubes fluorine gaseous gases gravitation heat Hence herbivorous hold of atoms hydrogen atoms inactive elements interlocked iodine kind lay hold lines of force loss of weight manifestly material matter Definition metal atom metal series metalloid atom metalloid series molecules monovalent motion nearest atom Newton non-valent atoms obtained Opticks oxygen particles phosphorus phosphorus pentachloride phosphorus trichloride plainly plant Postulate pseudopodia rows of corpuscles seen series is derived shown in Proposition side solid space spherical atoms square unit stand steady stream strong corpuscles surface tendency to lay tetravalent trivalent valent atoms weak corpuscles weight not less
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Página 12 - I wish we could derive the rest of the phenomena of Nature by the same kind of reasoning from mechanical principles, for I am induced by many reasons to suspect that they may all depend upon certain forces by which the particles of bodies, by some causes hitherto unknown, are either mutually impelled towards one another, and cohere in regular figures, or are repelled and recede from one another.
Página 14 - 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 any thing 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.
Página 39 - End for which he form'd them; and that these primitive Particles being Solids, are incomparably harder than any porous Bodies compounded of them; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary Power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first Creation.
Página v - ... to derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy, though the causes of those principles were not yet discovered: and therefore I scruple not to propose the principles of motion above mentioned, they being of very general extent, and leave their causes to be found out.
Página 13 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Página 39 - And therefore that Nature may be lasting, the Changes of corporeal Things are to be placed only in the various Separations and new Associations and Motions of these permanent Particles...
Página 19 - In all chemical investigations, it has justly been considered an important object to ascertain the relative weights of the simples which constitute a compound. But unfortunately the inquiry has terminated here; whereas from the relative weights in the mass, the relative weights of the ultimate particles or atoms of the bodies...
Página 35 - And against filling the heavens with fluid mediums, unless they be exceeding rare, a great objection arises from the regular and very lasting motions of the planets and comets in all manner of courses through the heavens. For thence it is manifest that the heavens are void of all sensible resistance, and by consequence of all sensible matter.
Página 176 - But though in the course of ages catastrophes have occurred and may yet occur in the heavens, though ancient systems may be dissolved and new systems evolved out of their ruins, the molecules out of which these systems are built — the foundation stones of the material universe — remain unbroken and unworn.
Página iii - And if Natural Philosophy in all its parts, by pursuing this method, shall at length be perfected; the bounds of Moral Philosophy will be also enlarged.