 That fundamental supposition is, that the parts of bodies, when briskly agitated. do excite vibrations in the ether, which are propagated every way from those bodies in straight lines, and cause a sensation of light by beating and dashing against the...  The American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 2511875Full view - About this book
 | David Brewster - Great Britain - 1855 - 504 pages
...bodies when briskly agitated excite vibrations in the ether which are propagated every way from these bodies in straight lines, and cause a sensation of...sensation of sound by beating against the organs of hearing."2 In his reply to Hooke, on the llth of July 1673, Newton distinctly states that this, which... | |
 | English literature - 1861 - 600 pages
...removed until a very much later period. If light was caused by a vibrating medium, as Hooke maintained, ' something after the manner that vibrations in the...of sound by beating against the organs of hearing,' how «ame it that sound, after passing through an aperture, spread itself in all directions, while... | |
 | Anonymous - 1861 - 604 pages
...until a very much later period. If lijJbt'Was -caused by a vibrating medium, as Hooke .maintained, ' something after the manner that vibrations in 'the...sound by beating against the organs of .hearing,' how came it that sound, after passing through an aperture, spread itself in all directions, while light... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1861 - 604 pages
...removed until a very much later period. If light was caused by a vibrating medium, as Hooke maintained, ' something after the manner that vibrations in the air cause a sensation of sound bv beating against the organs of hearing,' how came it that sound, after passing through an aperture,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1877 - 534 pages
...supposition is, ' That the parts of bodies when briskly agitated do excite vibrations in the aether, which are propagated every way from those bodies in...the eye ; something after the manner that vibrations of the air cause a sensation of sound by beating against the organ of hearing.' Now the most free and... | |
 | Science - 1877 - 652 pages
...supposition is, ' That the parts of bodies when briskly agitated do excite vibrations in the aether, which are propagated every way from those bodies in straight lines, and cause a sensatiou of light by beating and dashing against the bottom of the eye ; something after the manner... | |
 | Paul Carus - Electronic journals - 1915 - 672 pages
...fundamental supposition was, according to Newton,* that "the parts of bodies when briskly agitated excite vibrations in the ether which are propagated...of sound by beating against the organs of hearing." Again, to quote some later words of Newton, Hooke "changed Descartes's pressing or progressive motion... | |
 | Charles Coulston Gillispie - Science - 1960 - 596 pages
...subdue their press and hurry. He advanced the hypothesis in passages chosen from -[ 413 I-- Newton: "That fundamental supposition is, that the parts of...of sound by beating against the organs of hearing." Nor was the "prepossession" which Young felt for this notion a question of new evidence, but only of... | |
 | Jozef Cohen - Color - 2001 - 256 pages
...that the parts of the bodies, when briskly agitated, do excite vibrations in the ether, . . . which cause a sensation of light, by beating and dashing...application of this hypothesis to the solution of the phenomena I take to be this: that the agitated parts of the bodies, according to their several... | |
 | 68 pages
...c%j cause a sensation of light by beating <%j dashing against the back of the eye, in the same way that vibrations in the air cause a sensation of sound by beating against the organs of hearing.... To me, it seems impossible that waves or vibrations in any fluid can. like the rays of Light, travel... | |
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