| William Stanley Jevons - 1874 - 524 pages
...Theory of Probability,' p. 398. 'Ninth Bridgwater TreatiseP,' Mr. Babbage has pointed out that if we had power to follow and detect the minutest effects of any disturbance, each particle of existing matter must be a register of all that has happened. ' The track of every canoe—of every vessel that has... | |
| William Stanley Jevons - 1874 - 502 pages
...particle of existing matter must be a register of all that has happened. ' The track of every canoe — of every vessel that has yet disturbed the surface of the ocean, whether impelled by manual force or elemental power, remains for ever registered in the future movement... | |
| Balfour Stewart - 1875 - 270 pages
...and amongst others to Jevons. " Mr. Babbage," says this author,1 " has pointed out2 that if we had power to follow and detect the minutest effects of any disturbance, each particle of existing matter must be a register of all that has happened." 196. We ourselves believe that the explanation of nature's... | |
| Balfour Stewart, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1875 - 228 pages
...science, and among others to Jevons. " Mr. Babbage," says this author,1 " has pointed out * that if we had power to follow and detect the minutest effects of any disturbance, each particle of existing matter must be a register of all that has happened." 196. We ourselves believe that the explanation of Nature's... | |
| Balfour Stewart - 1875 - 244 pages
...and amongst others to Jevons. " Mr. Babbage," says this author,1 " has pointed out2 that if we had power to follow and detect the minutest effects of any disturbance, each particle of existing matter must be a register of all that has happened." 196. We ourselves believe that the explanation of nature's... | |
| 1875 - 620 pages
...present." Mr. Jevons, in his Principles of Science,^ says : " Mr. Babbage has pointed out that if we had power to follow and detect the minutest effects of any disturbance, each particle of existing matter must be a register of all that has happened." But this is not enough. The present universe, as we have... | |
| Balfour Stewart, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1875 - 274 pages
...and amongst others to Jevons. " Mr. Babbage," says this author,1 " has pointed out2 that if we had power to follow and detect the minutest effects of any disturbance, each particle of existing matter must be a register of all that has happened." 196. We ourselves believe that the explanation of nature's... | |
| Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1876 - 688 pages
...affect every particle of the water which it contains, but it has been ingeniously shown that "if we had power to follow and detect the minutest effects of any disturbance, each particle of existing matter must be a register of all that has happened. The track of every canoe, of every vessel that has yet... | |
| John Fiske - 1876 - 360 pages
...upon the past." Recourse is had to the ingenious argument in which Mr. Babbage showed that " if we had power to follow and detect the minutest effects of any disturbance, each particle of existing matter must be a register of all that has happened. The track of every canoe, of every vessel that has yet... | |
| 1876 - 590 pages
...by which our universe keeps up a memory of the past ? ' ' Mr. Babbage has pointed out that if we had power to follow and detect the minutest effects of any disturbance, each particle of existing matter must be a register of all that has happened.'1 Undoubtedly, ' if we had power to follow.' But if we... | |
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