I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various forms under which the forces of matter are made manifest have one common origin; or, in other words, are so... The London Lancet - Page 281851Full view - About this book
| James Edward Henry Gordon - 1880 - 388 pages
...ACTION OP MAGNETS ox LIGHT. " I have long held an opinion, almost amountin g to conviction, in common, I believe, with many other lovers of natural knowledge,...dependent, that they are convertible, as it were, one into another, and possess equivalents of power in their action.* In modern times, tire proofs of... | |
| James Edward Henry Gordon - 1880 - 388 pages
...ACTION OF MAGNETS ox LIGHT. " I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common, I believe, with many other lovers of natural knowledge,...dependent, that they are convertible, as it were, one into another, and possess equivalents of power in their action.* In modern times, tl>e proofs of... | |
| Albany Institute - 1880 - 144 pages
...heat, light, etc., and, like them, is a MODE OF MOTION. Faraday held very positively to the opinion that the various forms under which the forces of matter are made manifest have one common origin ; in other words, are so directly related and mutually dependent, that they are convertible, as it... | |
| Richard Wormell - 1882 - 366 pages
...the mode of this discovery he says: — " I have long held an opinion almost amounting to conviction, that the various forms under which the forces of matter...dependent, that they are convertible, as it were, one into another, and possess equivalents of power in their action. This strong persuasion extended... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1883 - 904 pages
..."I have long," he says, "held an opinion almost amounting to a conviction, in common I believe wilh many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various...of matter are made manifest have one common origin ; in other words, are so directly related and mutually dependent, that they are convertible, as it... | |
| American Dental Association - 1883 - 488 pages
...science. This doctrine is not new, for as long ago as 1845 Faraday declared that he held the opinion that the various forms under which the forces of matter are made manifest have one common origin, and are so mutually interdependent that they are convertible one into another, and possess equivalents... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 478 pages
...find that every kind of force is capable of producing all other kinds, or, in Mr. Faraday's language, that " the various forms under which the forces of matter are made manifest have a common origin, or, in other words, are so directly related and mutually dependent that they are convertible... | |
| James Edward Henry Gordon - 1886 - 282 pages
..."Action of magnets on light. I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common, I believe, with many other lovers of natural knowledge,...the various forms under which the forces of matter arc made manifest have one common origin ; or, in other words, are so directly related and mutually... | |
| Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1924 - 952 pages
...electrical engineering. Such a "I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to certainty, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge,...made manifest have one common origin, or, in other Fig. 4. — Direct photograph of the sun, July 30, 1906. This was taken just before the calcium clouds... | |
| E. Edmond - 1887 - 270 pages
...the same forces will continue and effects follow): I have long held an opinion, almost a conviction, that the various forms under which the forces of matter are made manifest have one common origin, and are so directly related and mutually dependent that they are convertible, as it were, with one... | |
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