 | Titus Lucretius Carus - 1864 - 452 pages
...like. In illustration of 565 — 576 hear what Newton says in his optics p. 251 'all bodies мч'Ш to be composed of hard particles : for otherwise fluids would not congeal... Even the rays of light seem to be hard bodies. ..and therefore îiiirdiifss may be reckoned the property... | |
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - 1884 - 486 pages
...with cond. 576. In illustration of lines 565-573 Muuro quotes a remarkable passage from Newton : " All bodies seem to be composed of hard particles : for otherwise fluids would not congeal. Even the rays of light seem to be hard bodies . . . and therefore hardness may be reckoned the property... | |
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - 1884 - 452 pages
...with cond. 576. In illustration of lines 565-573 Munro quotes a remarkable passage from Newton : " All bodies seem to be composed of hard particles : for otherwise fluids would not congeal. Even the rays of light seem to be hard bodies . . . and therefore hardness may be reckoned the property... | |
 | Roger H. Stuewer - 1989 - 410 pages
...observed interactions of [these] type[s] to have occurred"? See Opticks (Dover edition), page 389: "All Bodies seem to be composed of hard Particles: For otherwise Fluids would not congeal; [etc., etc.]. Even the Rays of Light seem to be hard Bodies; for otherwise they would not retain different... | |
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All Bodies seem to be composed of hard Particles: For otherwise Fluids would not congeal; as Water, Oils, Vinegar, and Spirit or Oil of Vitriol do by freezing; Mercury by Fumes of Lead; Spirit of Nitre and Mercury, by dissolving the Mercury and evaporating... 