 | Isaac Newton - Optics - 1730 - 432 pages
...Space between them, without any Pores or Interfaces' to weaken their Cohefion. And how fuch vcib ry hard Particles which are only laid together; and touch only in a few Points, can ftick tdgt^ ther, and that fo firmly as they do, without trftP affiftance of fomething which caufes... | |
 | Isaac Newton - Light - 1730 - 403 pages
...all the Space between them, without any Pores or Ihterftices to weaken their Cohelion. And how fuch very hard Particles which are only laid together and touch only in a few Points, can ftick together, and that fo firmly as they do, without the afiiftance'of fomething which caufes them... | |
 | Robert Boyle - 1738 - 788 pages
...all the fpace between them, without any pores or interlaces to weaken their cohefion. And how fuch very hard particles, which are only laid together, and touch only in a few points, can Hick together, and that fo firmly as they do, without the affiftance of fomething which caufes them... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 570 pages
...the simple particles " which are void of pores, and were never yet divided, must be " much harder — And how such very hard particles which are " only...SOMETHING which causes them to be attracted or PRESSED to" wards one another, is very difficult to conceive. arising from the density and magnitude together,... | |
 | John Gibson MacVicar - 1830 - 674 pages
...together, t/ie simple particles which an void of pores, and were never yet divided, must be much harder And how such very hard particles, which are only laid...without the assistance of something which causes them to he attracted or pressed towards one another, is very difficult to conceive By the same principle (capillary... | |
 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - Heat - 1843 - 498 pages
...atoms, which in the densest bodies touch only in a few points," he adds, " how they can stick together so firmly as they do without the assistance of something...towards one another, is very difficult to conceive." He remarks, in another passage, page 369, " there are agents in nature capable of causing the particles... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1846 - 588 pages
...together, the simple particles which are void of pores, and were never yet divided, must be much harder — And how such very hard particles which are only laid...stick together, and that so firmly as they do, without assistance of something which causes them to be attracted or pressed towards out another, is very difficult... | |
 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1859 - 670 pages
...atoms, which in the densest bodies touch only in a few points," he adds: "how they can stick together so firmly as they do without the assistance of something which causes them to be attracted or pressed toward one another, is very difficult to conceive."* He remarks, in another passage, page 369, "there... | |
 | Henry Enfield Roscoe, Arthur Harden - Atomic theory - 1896 - 232 pages
...bodies seem to be composed of hard \ \ particles." " Even the rays of light seem to be hard bodies," " and how such very hard particles which are only laid...towards one another, is very difficult to conceive." "It seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable,... | |
 | W. Sedgwick - Argon - 1896 - 308 pages
...believed in the reality of matter in the form of the hard atom. In regard to force, he says : — " How such very hard particles, which are only laid...towards one another, is very difficult to conceive." — Ibid., P. 365At another place he says : — " The parts of all homogeneal hard bodies which fully... | |
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And how such very hard Particles which are only laid together and touch only in a few Points, can stick together, and that so firmly as they do, without the assistance of something which causes them to be attracted or press'd towards one another, is very... 
