Outlines of a System of Mechanical Philosophy: Being a Research Into the Laws of ForceCharles C. Little and James Brown, 1851 - 330 páginas |
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ascent ascer atmosphere atmospheric pressure atoms attractive force barometer believe cause centre centrifugal force change of level chemical affinity cistern cohesion curve degree of force density determined diameter direction distance earth elasticity electrical elevation equally diffused equilibrium equipoise explained extent fact falling bodies flow fluid force of descent force of impulse force of rotation friction gives greater heat heavenly bodies idea impelling impulse increase indicate intensity level of rotation magnetic mass mathematical matter maxima and minima measured mechanical mechanical philosophy mercury miles mind molecular action moon move movement nature ocean orbit orifice oscillation particles phenomena philosophy piston planets polarity poles position pounds present pressure principle progressive motion proportion quantity of water result revolution revolving rise sensible heat space spare force spheres stone stratum supposed surface theory of gravitation tidal tion transfer of force truth tube vacuum vapor velocity vena contracta wave weight wheel winds
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Página 269 - How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species) to the external World Is fitted: — and how exquisitely, too — Theme this but little heard of among men — The external World is fitted to the Mind; And the creation (by no lower name Can it be called) which they with blended might Accomplish: — this is our high argument.
Página 5 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them; and that these primitive particles being solids are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to...
Página 127 - His part, while the one Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there, All new successions to the forms they wear; Torturing th' unwilling dross that checks its flight To its own likeness, as each mass may bear; And bursting in its beauty and its might From trees and beasts and men into the Heaven's light.
Página 109 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Página 109 - And I will establish my covenant with you ; neither shall all flesh be cut off" any more by the waters of a flood ; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Página 263 - It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact ; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it.
Página 261 - ... 60 X 60 times greater than at the moon, a body in our regions, falling with that force, ought, in the space of one minute of time, to describe 60...
Página 78 - I observed that in this lake there is a sort of reflux and flux, almost instantaneous ; the rocks near the banks being covered with water and uncovered again several times in the space of a quarter of an hour, even if the surface of the lake was very calm, with scarce a breath of air. After reflecting some time on this appearance...
Página 263 - ... a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Página 91 - ... and nocturnal observations. Their regularity is so great, that, in the day-time especially, the hour may be ascertained from the height of the mercurial column, without an error, on the average, of more than fifteen or seventeen minutes. In the torrid zone of the new continent...