 | James Clerk Maxwell - 1871 - 346 Seiten
...divisibility of bodies. We do not assert that there is an absolute limit to the divisibility of matter : what we assert is, that after we have divided a body...rise to the phenomena observed in the substance. The opinion that the observed properties of visible bodies apparently at rest are due to the action of... | |
 | 1875 - 620 Seiten
...Clerk-Maxwell says : ' We do not assert that there is ' an absolute limit to the divisibility of matter : what we assert ' is, that after we have divided a...rise to the phenomena observed in the * substance.' * Professor Sellar, in his admirable work on Lucretius, says, somewhat heedlessly — surely by a mere... | |
 | 1875 - 844 Seiten
...ClerkMaxwell says : " We do not assert that there is an absolute limit to the divisibility of matter : what we assert is, that after we have divided a body...rise to the phenomena observed in the substance." Professor Seliar, in his admirable work on Lucretius, says, somewhat heedlessly — surely by a mere... | |
 | Gaetano Trezza - 1877 - 194 Seiten
...that there is an absolute limit to the divisibility of matter : what we asserì is that after we bave divided a body into a certain finite number of constituent...any further division of these molecules will deprive then of the property which give rise to the phenomena observed in the substance. » rama nei corpi... | |
 | John Masson - 1884 - 292 Seiten
...Clerk-Maxwell says: ' We do not assert that there is an absolute limit to the divisibility of matter: what we assert is, that after we have divided a body...rise to the phenomena observed in the substance.' 2 Thus Lucretius reasons with perfect consistency from the eternal youth of nature, the freshness and... | |
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - 1884 - 456 Seiten
...of Heat,' p. 285 : " We do not assert that there is an absolute limit to the divisibility of matter; what we assert is that after we h.ave divided a body...rise to the phenomena observed in the substance." On the value of the argument see Stallo, ' Concepts and Theories of Mod. Phys.' ch. 7. — genitalis:... | |
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - 1884 - 486 Seiten
...of Heat,' p. 285 : " We do not assert that there is an absolute limit to the divisibility of matter; what we assert is that after we have divided a body...these molecules will deprive them of the properties whith give rise to the phenomena observed in the substance." On the value of the argument see Stallo,... | |
 | Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir, Charles Slater - 1887 - 400 Seiten
...deny the infinite divisibility of matter. What this theory asserts, to use the words of Clerk Maxwell, is "that after we have divided a body into a certain...rise to the phenomena observed in the substance." 289 The relations between the motions and the space occupied by a number of molecules which are mutually... | |
 | John Masson - 1907 - 514 Seiten
...Clerk-Maxwell says : ' We do not assert that there is an absolute limit to the divisibility of matter : what we assert is, that after we have divided a body...properties which give rise to the phenomena observed in the substance.'2 Thus Lucretius reasons with perfect consistency from the eternal youth of Nature, the... | |
 | John Masson - 1907 - 498 Seiten
...Clerk-Maxwell says : ' We do not assert that there is an absolute limit to the divisibility of matter : what we assert is, that after we have divided a body...properties which give rise to the phenomena observed in the substance.'2 Thus Lucretius reasons with perfect consistency from the eternal youth of Nature, the... | |
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We do not assert that there is an absolute limit to the divisibility of matter: what we assert is, that after we have divided a body into a certain finite number of constituent parts called molecules, then any further division of these molecules will... 
