...configuration and motion. Green observes, in the introduction to the paper containing this attempt:— " We are so perfectly ignorant of the mode of action...widely different from the mechanism employed by nature .... and also lead to a much more simple process of calculation." The principle is then enunciated...

...configuration and motion. Green observes, in the introduction to the paper containing this attempt : — " We are so perfectly ignorant of the mode of action of the elements of the h1miniferous ether on each other, that it would seem a safer method to take some general physical principle...

...of specifying the structure of the luminiferous ether. He argued that it was preferable to assume a general 'physical principle as the basis of our reasoning,...different from the mechanism employed by nature'. Green's paper was of great importance in offering as an alternative to the construction of specific...

...efforts but without appeal to any particular interactions of whatever molecules constituted matter: We are so perfectly ignorant of the mode of action...mechanism employed by nature; more especially if this include in itself, as a particular case, those before used by M Cauchy and others, and also lead to...

...but without appeal to any particular interactions of whatever molecules constituted matter: We arc so perfectly ignorant of the mode of action of the...mechanism employed by nature; more especially if this include in itself, as a particular case, those before used by M Cauchy and others, and also lead to...

...which may he called forth in order to help uncovering the constitution of the ether. He pointed out: We are so perfectly ignorant of the mode of action...other, that it would seem a safer method to take some physical principle as the hasis of our reasoning, rather than to assume certain modes of action, which...