 | 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...perception or phenomenon."! "If," says Lewes, " we withdraw from the law of universal attraction the formula 'inversely as the square of the distance and directly as the mass,' it becomes pure metaphysics." Indeed Physical Science cannot dispense with Metaphysical ideas, for... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 894
...the law of gravitation is a scientific theory ; but if we withdraw from it the verifiable formula ' inversely as the square of the distance and directly as the mass,' there remains only the occult metaphysical. On the other hand, theory of gravitation, which explain... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 606
...number of physical phenomena are perceived to follow as necessary consequences from Newton's grand law, that bodies tend toward each other with a force varying...distance and directly as the mass of the bodies. But we should reach a higher unity and obtain a deeper insight into nature did we know not merely the empirical... | |
 | 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 636
...number of physical phenomena are perceived to follow as necessary consequences from Newton's grand law, that bodies tend toward each other with a force varying...distance and directly as the mass of the bodies. But we should reach a higher unity and obtain a deeper insight into nature did we know not merely the empirical... | |
 | John Fiske - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...we withdraw from it the verifiable specification of its mode of operation. Withdraw the formula, ' inversely as the square of the distance and directly as the mass,' and Attraction is left standing — a mere 'occult quality." Indeed the Cartesians reproached it with... | |
 | John Fiske - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 522
...we withdraw from it the verifiable specification of its mode of operation. Withdraw the formula, ' inversely as the square of the distance and directly as the mass,' and Attraction is left standing — a mere 'occult quality.' Indeed the Cartesians reproached it with... | |
 | Thomas Best Woodward - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 294
...illustra" tion of this, he says that if we withdraw, from the " Law of Universal Attraction, the formula, " inversely "as the square of the distance, and directly as the " mass," it becomes pure Metaphysics. If this means " that, apart from ascertained numerical relations, our... | |
 | John Fiske - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...we withdraw from it the verifiable specification of its mode of operation. Withdraw the formula, ' inversely as the square of the distance and directly as the mass,' and Attraction is left standing — a mere 'occult quality.' Indeed the Cartesians reproached it with... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...1866, vol. Ixvi, pp. 148, 149. t Jtn-ue de Deiu Mondes, 15th December, 1866, vol. Ixvi, pp. 922, 923. bodies tend toward each other with a force varying...thing which has been demonstrated is that B tends toward A ; but the theory does not rest here ; it goes on to account for this tendency by referring... | |
 | 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 652
...Iti66, vol. Ixvi, pp. 148, 149. t Rerue de Deux Mondes, loth December, 1866, vol. Ixvi, pp. 922, 923. bodies tend toward each other with a force varying...distance, and directly as the mass of the bodies. Bat it never was demonstrated or proved by any one that the bodies attract each other. The thing which... | |
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Thus the law of universal attraction becomes pure Metaphysics if we withdraw from it the verifiable specification of its mode of operation. Withdraw the formula " inversely as the square of the distance and directly as the mass," and Attraction is left... 
