 The magnetic forces do not act on the ray of light directly and without the intervention of matter, but through the mediation of the substance in which they and the ray have a simultaneous existence ; the substances and the forces giving to and receiving...  A Physical Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism - Page 216by James Edward Henry Gordon - 1880Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 578 pages
...considerations which tend to prove that all natural forces are tied together, and have one common origin The magnetic forces do not act on the ray of light...power of acting on the light. This is shown by the non-action of a vacuum, or gases ; and it is also shown by the special degree in which different matters... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 592 pages
...forces are tied together, and have one common origin The magnetic forces do not act on the ray oflight directly, and without the intervention of matter,...power of acting on the light. This is shown by the non-action of a vacuum, or gases ; and it is also shown by the special degree in which different matters... | |
 | Robert Hunt - 1849 - 538 pages
...Transactions, vol. cxxxvii. — The following remarks are to the point of doubt referred to in the text. — " The magnetic forces do not act on the ray of light...receiving from each other the power of acting on the ligbt. This is shown by the non-action of a vacuum, of air or gases, and it is also further shown by... | |
 | Robert Hunt - 1850 - 408 pages
..." The magixetic forces do not act он tho ray of light directly and -without thç inter« ventiou of matter» but through the mediation of the substance...the forces giving to and receiving from each other tho power of acting on the light. This is shown by the non-action, of & vacuum, of air or gam, and... | |
 | Robert Hunt - 1854 - 488 pages
...Transactions, vol. cxxxvii.— The following remarks are to the point of doubt referred to in the text. — " The magnetic forces do not act on the ray of light...giving to and receiving' from each other the power, of itcting on the light This is shown by the non-action of a vacuum, of air or gases, and it is also further... | |
 | Robert Hunt - 1854 - 456 pages
...forces do not act on the ray of'light directly and without the intervention of matter, but through'the mediation of the substance in which they and the ray...power of acting on the light. This is shown by the non-action of a vacuum, of air or gases, and it is also further shown by the special degree in which... | |
 | Robert Hunt - 1854 - 448 pages
...Transactions, vol. cxxxvii. — The following remarks are to the point of doubt referred to iu the text. — " The magnetic forces do not act on the ray of light...mediation of the substance in which they and the ray have 11 simultaneous existence; the substances and the forces giving to and receiving from each other the... | |
 | Michael Faraday - 1855 - 614 pages
...possess great superiority, and to have their full equivalent of action on the same kind of matter. 2224. The magnetic forces do not act on the ray of light...power of acting on the light. This is shown by the non-action of a vacuum, of air or gases; and it is also further shown by the special degree in which... | |
 | James Edward Henry Gordon - 1880 - 388 pages
...ray of light, or as they tend to parallelism with it. As, in reference to matter not magnetic alter the manner of iron, the phenomena of electric induction...power of acting on the light. This is shown by the non-action of a vacuum or of air or gases ; and it is also further shown by the special degree in which... | |
 | James Edward Henry Gordon - 1886 - 282 pages
...appliance of these powers to the investigation of the nature of this and other radiant agencies. " The magnetic forces do not act on the ray of light...power of acting on the light. This is shown by the non-action of a vacuum or of air or gases ; and it is also further shown by the special degree in which... | |
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