... all the phenomena accord entirely with the supposition that the earth's atmosphere is of finite extent, limited by the weight of ultimate atoms of definite magnitude no longer divisible by repulsion of their parts. Annals of Philosophy - Page 2321822Full view - About this book
| Science - 1822 - 450 pages
...Dr Wollaston concludes, that all the phenomena accord entirely with the supposition that the Earths atmosphere is of finite extent, limited by the weight...magnitude, no longer divisible by repulsion of their parts. Having thus stated Dr Wollaston's reasoning as perspicuously as we can, we shall lay before the reader,... | |
| 1823 - 626 pages
...interesting paper by Dr. Wollaston ' On the Finite Extent of the Atmosphere.' The result of the inquiry is, that the earth's atmosphere is of finite extent, limited by the weight of ultimate atoms cf definite magnitude, no longer divisible by repulsion of their parts. Anatomical Subjects, — It... | |
| Agriculture - 1822 - 526 pages
...some degree of doubt may be entertained in consequence of the possible effects of heat which cannet be appreciated, it is evident that no error from this...with respect to their action on light, only a From <i ill it-it's Annuls, vol. v. 1822. single one was found, which might be properly considered as possessing... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Bibliography - 1822 - 572 pages
...certainly has not its due share of an inliniti'ly divisible atmosphere, the universal prevalence of such &' medium cannot be maintained; while, on the contrary,...atoms of definite magnitude no longer divisible by repulsiti^ '&f their parts.' On the Expansion ma Series of the Attraction of a Spheroid* By James Ivory,... | |
| English literature - 1822 - 696 pages
...eclipses of his satellites ; with a similar and even stronger result. Hence, Dr. Wollaston concludes, that all the phenomena accord entirely with the supposition,...magnitude, no longer divisible by repulsion of their parts. The reader will also find in this paper, some important remarks. on the power of telescopes in observations... | |
| Science - 1822 - 446 pages
...Wollaston concludes, that all tJte phenomena accord entirely with the supposition that the Earth"s atmosphere is of finite extent, limited by the weight...magnitude, no longer divisible by repulsion of their parts. Having thus stated Dr Wollaston's reasoning as perspicuously as we can, we shall lay before the reader,... | |
| Science - 1822 - 484 pages
...that all flie phenomena accord entirely with the supposition that the EartKs atmosphere is afjmite extent, limited by the weight of ultimate atoms, of...magnitude, no longer divisible by repulsion of their parts. Having thus stated Dr Wollaston's reasoning as perspicuously as we can, we shall lay before the reader,... | |
| 206 pages
...the inquiry is, that the earib'a atmosphere is of finite extent, limited by the weight of ullimate atoms of definite magnitude, no longer divisible by repulsion of their parts. Gas. It has lately been discovered, that when wood acid is made to pass through an iron tnbe healed... | |
| 1823 - 508 pages
...particle is equal to the resistance arising from the repulsive force of the medium t". And again, " All the phenomena accord entirely with the supposition...magnitude, no longer divisible by repulsion of their parts J." Mr. Leslie, however, somewhat inconsistently draws another inference from his calculations, which... | |
| 1824 - 452 pages
...shew) is found in the earth's atmosphere, all the pheuomema according with the supposition that it is "of finite extent, limited by the weight of ultimate...no longer divisible by repulsion of their parts." But though the atomic theory, in its general outline, seems to me to rest sufficiently on the evidence... | |
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