 | George Douglas Campbell Duke of Argyll - 1884 - Počet stránok 602
...regarded as infinitely small, or as infinitely hard and strong, or as absolutely impenetrable, or as so absolutely single as to be in itself destitute...the average velocity of their movements in a certain The Elementary Atoms of Chemistry. 2 17 length of path has been made the subject of mathematical calculation.... | |
 | William Simon - 1884 - Počet stránok 482
...small particles, yet they are not entirely immeasurable ; they are, as Sir W. Thomson says, pieces of matter of measurable dimensions, with shape, motion, and laws of action, intelligible subjects of scientific investigation. Before leaving the molecular theory, I will mention... | |
 | 1890 - Počet stránok 206
...accordance with philosophical theories. They say, that theories tell them that molecules are "pieces of matter of measurable dimensions, with shape, motion and laws of action— intelligible subjects of scientific investigation," and they want to see the effect of atoms and molecules... | |
 | 1887 - Počet stránok 532
...chemist what the heavenly bodies are to the astronomer, they are as Sir W. Thompson expresses it: "Pieces of matter of measurable dimensions with shape, motion and laws of action, intelligible subjects of scientific investigation." And to study the motion of these minute particles,... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1894 - Počet stránok 636
...space with infinite hardness and strength (incredible in any finite body) ; but we must realise it as a piece of matter of measurable dimensions, with shape, motion, and laws of action, intelligible subjects of scientific investigation. The prismatic analysis of light discovered by Newton... | |
 | 1895 - Počet stránok 710
...paused. The conception of vortex motion cannot be brought into harmony with the conception of an atom as a piece of matter of measurable dimensions with shape, motion, and laws of action. The last conception implies that an atom is a single piece of matter of a particular shape and measure... | |
 | 1898 - Počet stránok 82
...they are to me just as much real magnitudes as the planets, or, to use the words of Thompson, ' pieces of matter of measurable dimensions, with shape, motion, and laws of action, intelligible subjects of scientific investigation.' The terms molecule and atom are constantly confounded... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1910 - Počet stránok 758
...incredible old idea of small spheres of infinite hardness and strength : they must be regarded as pieces of matter "of measurable dimensions, with shape, motion, and laws of action." A theory of light which left out the atoms, and sought to explain the light-waves by calling them electromagnetic,... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1922 - Počet stránok 688
...fundamental alterations in its beliefs as by additions to them. Dalton would equally have regarded the atom " as a piece of matter of measurable dimensions, with shape, motion, and laws of action, intelligible subjects of scientific investigation." . In spite of the fact that the atomic theory,... | |
 | 1871 - Počet stránok 1000
...space with infinite hardness and strength (incredible in any finite body) ; but we must, realize it as a piece of matter of measurable dimensions, with shape, motion, and laws of action, intelligible subjects of scientific investigation. Spectrum Analysis. The prismatic analysis of light... | |
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... as a piece of matter of measurable dimensions, with shape, motion, and laws of action, intelligible subjects of scientific investigation. 
