 ... all our perception and knowledge of the atom, and even our fancy, is limited to ideas of its powers : what thought remains on which to hang the imagination of an a independent of the acknowledged forces...  Experimental Researches in Electricity - Page 288by Michael Faraday - 1844 - 302 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Hare - Spiritualism - 1855 - 484 pages
...around it, I cannot imagine. To my mind, therefore, the a or nucleus vanishes, and the substance consist of the powers or m; and indeed what notion can we...imagination of an a independent of the acknowledged forces ? As mind just entering on the subject may consider it difficult to think of the powers of matter independent... | |
 | Robert Hare - Bible and spiritualism - 1855 - 556 pages
...mind, therefore, the a or nucleus vanishes, and the substance consist of the powers or m; and indecd what notion can we form of the nucleus independent...imagination of an a independent of the acknowledged forces ? As mind just entering on the subject may consider it difficult to think of the powers of matter independent... | |
 | John Dobree Dalgairns - 1861 - 368 pages
...it. He then continues : " To my mind this nucleus vanishes, and the substance consists of the powers. And indeed, what notion can we form of the nucleus...thought remains on which to hang the imagination of an atom independent of its -acknowledged forces ? A mind just entering on the subject may consider it... | |
 | Alexander Penrose Forbes - Anglican Communion - 1868 - 552 pages
...of its powers ? All our perception and knowledge of the atom, and even our fancy, is limited to the ideas of its powers. What thought remains, on which...imagination of an a, independent of the acknowledged forces. Now the powers we know and recognise in every phenomenon of the creation, the abstract matter in none... | |
 | Gilbert Sutton - Religion and science - 1868 - 356 pages
...substance consists in the ]x>wers of m\ and, indeed, what notion can we form of the nucleus independent of its powers? What thought remains on which to hang...imagination of an a independent of the acknowledged forces?" — thus abolishing the atom, and putting a centre of force in its place. "This view of the constitution... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1868 - 210 pages
...substance consists in the powers of m. And indeed what notion can we form of the nucleus independent of its powers ? What thought remains on which to hang...imagination of an a independent of the acknowledged forces? ' Like Boscovich he abolishes the atom, and puts a ' centre of force ' in its place. With his usual... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1869 - 636 pages
...substance consists in the powers of m. And indeed what notion can we form of the nucleus independent of its powers ? What thought remains on which to hang...imagination of an a independent of the acknowledged forces." Like Boscovich he abolishes the atom and puts a " centre of force" in its place. With his usual courage... | |
 | What - 1869 - 220 pages
...compounds, the effects of forces, as heat or electricity, upon matter, the difference will be very great All our perception and knowledge of the atom, and even our fancy, is limited to ideas of its powers. .... A mind just entering on the subject may consider it difficult to think of the powers of matter... | |
 | Bence Jones, Michael Faraday - Electromagnetic theory - 1870 - 514 pages
...substance consists in the powers of in. And, indeed, what notion can we form of the nucleus independent of its powers ? What thought remains on which to hang...imagination of an a independent of the acknowledged forces ? " Like Boscovich, he abolishes the atom and puts a " centre of force " in its place. ' With his usual... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1873 - 202 pages
...consists in the powers of m. And indeed what notion can we form of the nucleus independent of its powers 9 What thought remains on which to hang the imagination of an a independent of the acknowledged forces? 5 Like Boscovich he abolishes the atom, and puts a c centre of force * in its place. With his usual... | |
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