 | Cambridge Philosophical Society - Philosophy - 1842 - 458 pages
...he appears to entertain great doubts on the subject, for he concludes his scholium by observing : " Whether elastic fluids do really consist of particles...repelling each other, is a physical question. We have demonstrated the properties of fluids consisting of particles of this kind, that hence philosophers... | |
 | Sir William Snow Harris - Magnetism - 1850 - 394 pages
...them, Newton never pretended to offer any theory of magnetism, but says, with his usual diffidence, " whether elastic fluids do really consist of particles so repelling each other is a physical question," which he leaves philosophers to determine. On the other hand, the learned Dr. Eobison is led to question... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1854 - 450 pages
...them," Newton never pretended to offer any theory of magnetism, but says with his usual diffidence, " whether elastic fluids do really consist of particles so repelling each other is a physical question," and " which he leaves philosophers to determine." On the other hand, a large amount of experimental... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1854 - 436 pages
...them," Newton never pretended to offer any theory of magnetism, but says with his usual diffidence, " whether elastic fluids do really consist of particles so repelling each other is a physical question," and " which he leaves philosophers to determine." On the other hand, a large amount of experimental... | |
 | sir William Snow Harris - 1872 - 474 pages
...them, Newton never pretended to offer any theory of magnetism, but says, with his usual diffidence, ' whether elastic fluids do really consist of particles so repelling each other is a physical question ' which he leaves philosophers to determine. On the other hand, the learned Dr. Robison is led to question... | |
 | Science - 1927 - 616 pages
...will be required a greater force to produce equal condensation of a greater quantity of the fluid. But whether elastic fluids do really consist of particles...that hence philosophers may take occasion to discuss the question ». That is, Newton was certain of the existence of elastic particles, but he was not... | |
 | Chemistry - 1910 - 470 pages
...example of this in magnética! bodies. . . . Whether elastic fluids do really consist of particles repelling each other is a physical question. We have...philosophers may take occasion to discuss that question." This proposition, along with its proof in the " Principia," is the earliest instance of the mathematical... | |
 | Edwin Arthur Burtt - History - 1925 - 382 pages
...greater quantity of the fluid. But whether elastic fluids do really consist of particles so repeiling each other is a physical question. We have here demonstrated...philosophers may take occasion to discuss that question." 11 Optichs, p. 340, ff. mass in terms of density and also in terms of resistance, such proportionality... | |
 | Adolph Judah Snow - Gravitation - 1926 - 270 pages
...will be required a greater force to produce equal condensation of a greater quantity of the fluid. But whether elastic fluids do really consist of particles...that hence philosophers may take occasion to discuss the question.' * That is, Newton was certain of the existence of elastic particles, but he was not... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen - Biography & Autobiography - 1980 - 428 pages
...not with the secondary question of physical reality. And he says so explicitly in a 'philosophical' scholium: 'But whether elastic fluids do really consist...so repelling each other, is a physical question.' Newton had only '. . . demonstrated mathematically the property of fluids consisting of particles of... | |
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But whether elastic fluids do really consist of particles so repelling each other, is a physical question. We have here demonstrated mathematically the property of fluids consisting of particles of this kind, that hence philosophers may take occasion... 
