 ... planetary spheres, but also molecularly, or throughout its most intimate structure : thus every alteration of temperature produces a molecular change throughout the whole substance heated or cooled ; slow chemical or electrical actions, actions of...  Studies in Theism - Page 202by Borden Parker Bowne - 1879 - 444 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Robert Grove - Dynamics - 1862 - 348 pages
...slow chemical or electrical actions, actions of light or invisible radiant forces, are always at play, so that as a fact we cannot predicate of any portion...matter, but that matter can be at rest, matter at MOTION. 27 rest would never of itself cease to be at rest ; it would not move unless impelled to such... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - Force and energy - 1865 - 512 pages
...slow chemical or electrical actions, actions of light or invisible radiant forces, are always at play, so that as a fact we cannot predicate of any portion...Supposing, however, that motion is not an indispensable Auction of matter, but that matter can be at rest, matter at rest would never of itself cease to be... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1867 - 400 pages
...chemical or electrical actions, actions of light or invisible radiant forces, are always at play ; so that, as a fact, we cannot predicate of any portion of matter, that it is absolutely at rest." The atoms, therefore, of which solid bodies consist are supposed to vibrate, to oscillate, or better,... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1867 - 400 pages
...chemical or electrical actions, actions of light or invisible radiant forces, are always at play ; so that, as a fact, we cannot predicate of any portion of matter, that it is absolutely at rest." The atoms, therefore, of which solid bodies consist are supposed to vibrate, to oscillate, or better,... | |
 | Academy of Science of St. Louis - Science - 1868 - 652 pages
...chemical or electrical actions, actions of light, or invisible radiant forces, are always at play ; so that as a fact we cannot predicate of any portion of matter that it is absolutely at rest. " Light, for a long time recognised only in its visual effect*, produces constantly changes in the... | |
 | Academy of Science of St. Louis - Science - 1868 - 664 pages
...chemical or electrical actions, actions of light, or invisible radiant forces, are always at play ; BO that as a fact we cannot predicate of any portion of matter that it is absolutely at rest. " Light, for a long time recognised only in its visual effects, produces constantly changes in the... | |
 | Ludwig Büchner - Force and energy - 1884 - 702 pages
...slow chemical or electrical actions, actions of light or invisible radiant forces are always at play, so that as a fact we cannot predicate of any portion of matter that it is absolutely at rest." The final result of his investigations is given by this scientist as that all the conditionx of matter... | |
 | George Grote - Philosophy, Ancient - 1885 - 502 pages
...slow chemical or electrical forces, actions of light or invisible radiant forces, are always at play ; so that, as a fact, we cannot predicate of any portion of matter, that it is absolutely at rest." found in the recently published books of the Refutatio Hseresium by PseudoOrigen or Hippolytus —... | |
 | Theodor Gomperz - Philosophy, Ancient - 1901 - 658 pages
...Problems of Life and Mind, ii. 299. Likewise Grove, On the Correlation of Physical Forces, p. 22, " though as a fact we cannot predicate of any portion of matter that it is absolutely at rest." Also Herbert Spencer, The Study of Sociology, ed. 4, p. 1 1 8 : " but now when we know that all stars... | |
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