Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society, Volume 18Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society., 1856 |
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Page 83
... ( attraction and repulsion ) were some of its manifes- tations ; but in reality nothing existed . We have then , one after another , a play on every one of the elements , each elevated in its turn , diminished to one or to a mere idea ...
... ( attraction and repulsion ) were some of its manifes- tations ; but in reality nothing existed . We have then , one after another , a play on every one of the elements , each elevated in its turn , diminished to one or to a mere idea ...
Page 84
... attraction and repulsion in their early days ; but it is also said by him rather curiously , " discord decomposes the mixtures of the elements , and mixes fire with fire , air with air , each sort of element with its like , whilst ...
... attraction and repulsion in their early days ; but it is also said by him rather curiously , " discord decomposes the mixtures of the elements , and mixes fire with fire , air with air , each sort of element with its like , whilst ...
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... attraction , and all principles besides are void of a real basis ; from such a propensity arises every motion perceived in heavenly or in terrestrial bodies ; it is a disposition to be attracted , which taught hard - steel to rush from ...
... attraction , and all principles besides are void of a real basis ; from such a propensity arises every motion perceived in heavenly or in terrestrial bodies ; it is a disposition to be attracted , which taught hard - steel to rush from ...
Page 136
... attracted ; the former force preventing mutual contact , the latter , which , when considered as acting between the ... attraction , but rather because it is of importance that we should understand what is the character of the affinity ...
... attracted ; the former force preventing mutual contact , the latter , which , when considered as acting between the ... attraction , but rather because it is of importance that we should understand what is the character of the affinity ...
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... attraction between them , and even in a degree capable of producing solution , combination , or affinity ; but it must be remarked that this affinity is not that of an acid to a base , or a base to an acid , but of the neutral compound ...
... attraction between them , and even in a degree capable of producing solution , combination , or affinity ; but it must be remarked that this affinity is not that of an acid to a base , or a base to an acid , but of the neutral compound ...
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Page 125 - 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...
Page 125 - ... 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 divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Page 126 - While the Particles continue entire, they may compose Bodies of one and the same Nature and Texture in all Ages: But should they wear away, or break in pieces, the Nature of Things depending on them, would be changed.
Page 304 - Morley. — A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE of the HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS in the ARABIC and PERSIAN LANGUAGES preserved in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
Page 233 - When any body exists in the elastic state, its ultimate particles are separated from each other to a much greater distance than in any other state; each particle occupies the centre of a comparatively large sphere, and supports its dignity by keeping all the rest, which by their gravity, or otherwise, are disposed to encroach upon it, at a respectful distance.
Page 265 - for the development of the chemical theory of definite proportions, usually called the Atomic Theory, and for his various other labours and discoveries in physical and chemical science.
Page 44 - These facts clearly point out the theory of the process : the elements of oxygen may combine with a certain portion of nitrous gas, or with twice that portion, but with no intermediate quantity.
Page 49 - I have lately been prosecuting this enquiry with remarkable success. The principle cannot be entered upon in this paper ; but I shall just subjoin the results, as far as they appear to be ascertained by my experiments. ** TABLE of the relative weights of the ultimate particles of gaseous and other bodies.
Page 49 - An enquiry into the relative weights of the ultimate particles of bodies is a subject, as far as I know, entirely new : I have lately been prosecuting this enquiry with remarkable success.
Page 96 - There is a strong propensity which dances through every atom, and attracts the minutest particle to some peculiar object ; search this universe from its base to its summit, from fire to air, from water to earth, from all below the moon to all above the celestial spheres, and thou wilt not find a corpuscle destitute of that natural attractibility...