| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1883 - 660 Seiten
...bodies with which we are acquainted are built up. One continuous substance filling all space : which can vibrate as light ; which can be sheared into positive...is the modern view of the ether and its functions. UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL INTELLIGENCE CAMBRIDGE. — Lord Rayleigh has resumed his course of lectures... | |
| Sir Oliver Lodge - 1889 - 454 Seiten
...bodies with which we are acquainted are built up. One continuous substance filling all space : which can vibrate as light ; which can be sheared into positive...is the modern view of the Ether and its functions. LECTURE III. THE DISCIIAKGK OK A LKYDEN JAR.1 IT is one of the great generalizations established by... | |
| James Croll - 1889 - 142 Seiten
...with which we are acquainted are built up. " One continuous substance filling all space, which can vibrate as light; which can be sheared into positive...which matter is capable. This is the modern view of ether and its functions." 1 There is this objection to Professor Lodge's theory: it is purely hypothetical.... | |
| John Ellard Gore - 1893 - 486 Seiten
...sheared into positive and negative 1 Stellar Evolution, pp. 89, UO. ARK THE ELEMENTS ELEMENTARY ? 69 electricity, which in whirls constitutes matter, and...not by impact, every action and reaction of which mutter is capable, — this is the modern view of ether and its functions." * The Nebular Hypothesis... | |
| American Oriental Society - 1896 - 622 Seiten
...negative electricity ; which in whirls or vortices constitutes matter, and which transmits by continuity (not by impact) every action and reaction of which...is the modern view of the ether and its functions." This conception, which he qualifies as ' modern ' is by no means new to the philosophy of China. How... | |
| 1898 - 584 Seiten
...nature's penetralia: 'One continuous substance filling all 310 Ethereal Telegraphy. Oct. ' which can vibrate as light ; which can be sheared into * positive...the modern view of the ether and its ' functions.' * He that runs may read ; but how much does he understand ? * Modern Views of Electricity, p. 416.... | |
| Chester Twitchell Stockwell - 1901 - 168 Seiten
...bodies with which we are acquainted are built up. One continuous substance filling all space ; which can vibrate as light, which can be sheared into positive...is the modern view of the ether and its functions." This was written previous to, and therefore does not take into account, the still more wonderful revelations... | |
| William Alexander Parsons Martin - 1901 - 526 Seiten
...negative electricity, which in whirls or vortices constitutes matter, and which transmits by continuity, not by impact, every action and reaction of which matter is capable — this is the modern view of ether and its functions." This conception, as I shall show in the next chapter, is not new to the philosophers... | |
| 1913 - 914 Seiten
...Electricity, edition of 1899, describes the aether as "one continuous substance filling all space ; which can vibrate as light ; which can be sheared into positive...every action and reaction of which matter is capable." A theory which was so dominant with the most advanced and profound thinkers in physical science, naturally... | |
| Lilian Whiting - 1906 - 206 Seiten
...bodies with which we are acquainted are built up. One continuous substance filling all space, which can vibrate as light, which can be sheared into positive...is the modern view of the ether and its functions." Into this "continuous substance filling all space " the ethereal man, released from his physical body,... | |
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