| George Trumbull Ladd - 1897 - عدد الصفحات: 642
...fact or of a physical law; such as that the chair is over yonder, or that the force of gravity varies inversely as the square of the distance and directly as the mass of the two bodies taking part in that transaction which reveals the existence of this force. Here, as in every... | |
| 1897 - عدد الصفحات: 680
...whispers of soul-absorbing fascination. Mathematics, Science, Art, Poetry, Philosophy pull at our minds with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance ; and if in our desire to do better the work of the day, be it teaching or writing or preaching, we draw... | |
| John Fiske - 1902 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...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 c occult quality.' Indeed the Cartesians reproached it with... | |
| George Henry Lewes - 1904 - عدد الصفحات: 80
...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 Attraction— which is metaphysical. On the other hand, if to a metaphysical... | |
| Hector Macpherson - 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 354
...from science to metaphysics simply by the withdrawal of the verifiable element. Withdraw the formula inversely as the square of the distance and directly as the mass, and attraction is left standing a mere occult quality. The strictly scientific school of France, while... | |
| 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 982
...withdraw from it the verifiable specification of the mode of its operation; that is, the formula of inversely as the square of the distance and directly as the mass. Add this verifiable formula to the metaphysical theory of an occult quality called attraction, arid... | |
| Sir George Howard Darwin - 1916 - عدد الصفحات: 152
...which the fluid streams from all sides and disappears, those points would be urged towards one another with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance and directly as the product of the intensities of the two inward streams. Such points are called sinks and the converse,... | |
| Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 690
...withdrawal of its " verifiable element." In illustration of this he says, that if we withdraw the formula " inversely as the square of the distance, and directly as the mass," from the law of universal attraction, " it becomes pure metaphysics."* If this means that, apart from... | |
| 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 582
...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... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...Gravitation," the author revived the difficulties which had been felt and proclaimed by Faraday. He says : " It was demonstrated by Newton, and has been proved...demonstrated or proved by any one that the bodies attract t/;u'li other. The thing which has been demonstrated is that B tends toward A ; bat the theory does... | |
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