small particles of bodies certain powers, virtues, or forces, by which they act at a " distance, not only upon the rays of light for reflecting, refracting, and inflecting them, " but also upon one another, for producing a great part of the phenomena... Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind - Page 395by Dugald Stewart - 1814Full view - About this book
| Isaac Newton - Optics - 1730 - 432 pages
...why may not Nature change Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies ? Qyeft. 3 1. Have not the fmall Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues, or Forces, by which they act at a diftance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting, 'and inflecting them, but alfo... | |
| Andrew Baxter - Philosophy - 1745 - 446 pages
...diftance, not only upon the rays of light, for ref effing, ref raffing, and in/leffing them, but alfo upon one another, for producing a great part. of the phenomena of nature ? For it is well known\hat bodies aff one upon another by the attractions of gravitation, magnetifm and eleffricity... | |
| Richard Lovett - Compasses (Mathematical instruments) - 1766 - 610 pages
...virtues, or forces, by which they a$ at a dijtance, not only upon the rays of Light — '-but allb upon one another, for producing a great part of the...Phenomena of Nature? For it is well known that Bodies aSt upon one another by the Attractions of Gravity" &c -{-. " 139. " Attraction, as a power acting... | |
| Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Eighteenth century - 1794 - 538 pages
...VOL. i. H " With * Philosophy of the Elements. " With regard to attraction," says that great man, " have not the small particles of bodies certain powers, virtues, or forces, by which they acft at a distance, not only upon the rays of light for reflecting, refracting, and inflecting them,... | |
| William Jones - Theology - 1801 - 456 pages
...being much more than insinuated in these words: " Have not the small particles of bodies cer" tain powers, virtues, or forces, by which " they act at a distance, not only upon the " rays of light — but also upon one another, ' ' for producing a great part of the phasno' ' mena of nature ? for... | |
| Richard Helsham - Mechanics - 1802 - 500 pages
...of matter of what kind foever, fo far as experience reaches, feem to be endued; and whereby they act upon one another for producing a great part of the phenomena of nature. Such is firft that power whereby the minute particles of matter do in fome circumttances tend towards... | |
| John Aikin - Biography - 1808 - 730 pages
...performed by the vibrations of this subtile elastic fluid, or selber. The small particles of bodies have certain powers, virtues, or forces, by which they act, at a distance, upon one another, for producing a great part of the pbtenomena of nature ; as in the attractions of... | |
| Daniel Ellis - Air - 1811 - 396 pages
...? 485. " Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers, virtues or forces," says Newton, " by which they act at a distance, not only upon the rays of light for reflecting, refracting, and inflectingthem, but also upon one another, for producing a great part of the phenomena of nature ?... | |
| Daniel Ellis - 1811 - 396 pages
...if we do not call it attraction ? How, then, must we suppose this attraction to be exerted ? 485. " Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers, virtues or forces," says Newton, " by which they act at a distance, not only upon the rays of light for reflecting, refracting,... | |
| Alexander Maxwell (bookseller.) - 1817 - 240 pages
...the indecision of his mind, I would direct you to Newton's Optics, third edit. 1721. Query 31st. " Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers,...virtues, or forces, by which they act at a distance ?" But lest you should overturn this opinion, in the same query you have an apology, in this curious... | |
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