Foresight and Understanding: An Enquiry Into the Aims of ScienceOriginated in the thirty-fourth series of Mahlon Powell lectures, delivered at Indiana University in March 1960. |
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Page 85
... gravitational interaction ; and he could offer no further reason why the attraction should vary as the inverse - square , rather than ( say ) the inverse - cube of the distance . As he left the matter , the inverse - square equation was ...
... gravitational interaction ; and he could offer no further reason why the attraction should vary as the inverse - square , rather than ( say ) the inverse - cube of the distance . As he left the matter , the inverse - square equation was ...
Page 86
... gravitational force spread out from the sources of attraction like an indestructible fluid , then - inevitably - the further out one went , the thinner it would be spread over the surfaces it crossed . There would be ( so to speak ) ...
... gravitational force spread out from the sources of attraction like an indestructible fluid , then - inevitably - the further out one went , the thinner it would be spread over the surfaces it crossed . There would be ( so to speak ) ...
Page 88
... Gravitational forces have always been notoriously difficult to measure , and we can scarcely manipulate gravita- tion to serve our purposes , in the way we do illumination . Intellectually , too , the whole character of gravitational ...
... Gravitational forces have always been notoriously difficult to measure , and we can scarcely manipulate gravita- tion to serve our purposes , in the way we do illumination . Intellectually , too , the whole character of gravitational ...
Contents
Foreword | 9 |
Forecasting and Understanding | 18 |
Ideals of Natural Order I | 38 |
Copyright | |
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