 | Isaac Newton - 1730 - Počet stránok 432
...why may not Nature change Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies ? Qyeft. 3 1. Have not the fmall Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues, or Forces, by which they act at a diftance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting, 'and inflecting them, but alfo... | |
 | Andrew Baxter - 1745 - Počet stránok 446
...diftance, not only upon the rays of light, for ref effing, ref raffing, and in/leffing them, but alfo upon one another, for producing a great part. of the phenomena of nature ? For it is well known\hat bodies aff one upon another by the attractions of gravitation, magnetifm... | |
 | Richard Lovett - 1766 - Počet stránok 610
...virtues, or forces, by which they a$ at a dijtance, not only upon the rays of Light — '-but allb upon one another, for producing a great part of the Phenomena of Nature? For it is well known that Bodies aSt upon one another by the Attractions of Gravity" &c -{-. " 139.... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - Počet stránok 538
...VOL. i. H " With * Philosophy of the Elements. " With regard to attraction," says that great man, " have not the small particles of bodies certain powers, virtues, or forces, by which they acft at a distance, not only upon the rays of light for reflecting, refracting, and inflecting them,... | |
 | William Jones - 1801 - Počet stránok 456
...being much more than insinuated in these words: " Have not the small particles of bodies cer" tain powers, virtues, or forces, by which " they act at a distance, not only upon the " rays of light — but also upon one another, ' ' for producing a great part of the phasno' ' mena of nature ? for... | |
 | Richard Helsham - 1802 - Počet stránok 500
...of matter of what kind foever, fo far as experience reaches, feem to be endued; and whereby they act upon one another for producing a great part of the phenomena of nature. Such is firft that power whereby the minute particles of matter do in fome circumttances tend towards... | |
 | John Aikin - 1808 - Počet stránok 730
...performed by the vibrations of this subtile elastic fluid, or selber. The small particles of bodies have certain powers, virtues, or forces, by which they act, at a distance, upon one another, for producing a great part of the pbtenomena of nature ; as in the attractions of... | |
 | Daniel Ellis - 1811 - Počet stránok 396
...? 485. " Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers, virtues or forces," says Newton, " by which they act at a distance, not only upon the rays of light for reflecting, refracting, and inflectingthem, but also upon one another, for producing a great part of the phenomena of nature ?... | |
 | Daniel Ellis - 1811 - Počet stránok 396
...if we do not call it attraction ? How, then, must we suppose this attraction to be exerted ? 485. " Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers, virtues or forces," says Newton, " by which they act at a distance, not only upon the rays of light for reflecting, refracting,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - Počet stránok 560
...those ideas of mmilou'v which I have here ventured to ascribe to him, appears from hh own words. " Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers,...producing a great part of the phenomena of nature ? For it n well known that bodies act one upon another, by the attractions of gravity, magnetism, and... | |
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Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers, virtues, or forces by which they act at a distance, not only upon the rays of light for reflecting, refracting, and inflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the phenomena... 
