The magnetic forces do not act on the ray of light directly and without the intervention of matter, but through the mediation of the substance in which they and the ray have a simultaneous existence; the substances and the forces giving to and receiving... Experimental Researches in Electricity - Page 20by Michael Faraday - 1855Full view - About this book
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1847 - 578 pages
...considerations which tend to prove that all natural forces are tied together, and have one common origin The magnetic forces do not act on the ray of light...light. This is shown by the non-action of a vacuum, or gases ; and it is also shown by the special degree in which different matters possess the property.... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1847 - 592 pages
...forces are tied together, and have one common origin The magnetic forces do not act on the ray oflight directly, and without the intervention of matter,...light. This is shown by the non-action of a vacuum, or gases ; and it is also shown by the special degree in which different matters possess the property.... | |
| Robert Hunt - Science - 1849 - 538 pages
...Transactions, vol. cxxxvii. — The following remarks are to the point of doubt referred to in the text. — " The magnetic forces do not act on the ray of light...receiving from each other the power of acting on the ligbt. This is shown by the non-action of a vacuum, of air or gases, and it is also further shown by... | |
| Robert Hunt - Science - 1850 - 408 pages
..." The magixetic forces do not act он tho ray of light directly and -without thç inter« ventiou of matter» but through the mediation of the substance...the forces giving to and receiving from each other tho power of acting on the light. This is shown by the non-action, of & vacuum, of air or gam, and... | |
| Robert Hunt - Physics - 1854 - 488 pages
...Transactions, vol. cxxxvii.— The following remarks are to the point of doubt referred to in the text. — " The magnetic forces do not act on the ray of light...giving to and receiving' from each other the power, of itcting on the light This is shown by the non-action of a vacuum, of air or gases, and it is also further... | |
| Robert Hunt - Physics - 1854 - 448 pages
...Transactions, vol. cxxxvii. — The following remarks are to the point of doubt referred to iu the text. — " The magnetic forces do not act on the ray of light...mediation of the substance in which they and the ray have 11 simultaneous existence; the substances and the forces giving to and receiving from each other the... | |
| James Edward Henry Gordon - 1880 - 388 pages
...possess great superiority, and to have their full equivalent of action on the same kind of matter. " The magnetic forces do not act on the ray of light...light. This is shown by the non-action of a vacuum or of air or gases ; and it is also further shown by the special degree in which different matters... | |
| James Edward Henry Gordon - Electricity - 1880 - 388 pages
...possess great superiority, and to have their full equivalent of action on the same kind of matter. " The magnetic forces do not act on the ray of light...power of acting on the light. This is shown by the non- action of a vacuum or of air or gases ; and it is also further shown by the special degree in... | |
| James Edward Henry Gordon - Electrical engineering - 1886 - 282 pages
...appliance of these powers to the investigation of the nature of this and other radiant agencies. " The magnetic forces do not act on the ray of light...light. This is shown by the non-action of a vacuum or of air or gases ; and it is also further shown by the special degree in which different matters... | |
| James Edward Henry Gordon - 1889 - 472 pages
...possess great superiority, and to have their full equivalent of action on the same kind of matter. " The magnetic forces do not act on the ray of light...from each other the power of acting on the light. ThiV is shown by the non-action of a vacuum or of air or gases ; and it is also further shown by the... | |
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