 | Isaac Newton - Optics - 1730 - 432 pages
...overtake the Vibrations of the firft, put them into thofe Fits. But how two JEthers can be diffufed through all Space, one of which acts upon the other, and by confequence is re-acted upon, without retarding, Clattering, difperfmg and confounding one anothers... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 570 pages
...often as they " overtake the vibrations of the first, put them into those fits. " But how two aethers can be diffused through all space, one of " which...retarding, shattering, dispersing, and confounding one I have now laid before the reader the proofs for the points I undertook to make out — that physics... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 396 pages
...troubles, to secure himself from a condition inconceivably more miserable ? South. How two ethers can he diffused through all space, one of which acts upon the other, and by consequence • reacted upon, without retarding, shattering, dupersing, and confound ing one another's motion*,... | |
 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - Heat - 1843 - 498 pages
...Sir Isaac Newton thought it " inconceivable that two (Ethers could be diffused through all nature, one of which acts upon the other, and by consequence...shattering, dispersing, and confounding one another's motion." — (Optics, p. 339.) gas, and the detonation of gunpowder, are more like an electric explosion... | |
 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - Heat - 1843 - 490 pages
...Sir Isaac Newton thought it " inconceivable that two tethers could be diffused through all nature, one of which acts upon the other, and by consequence...retarding, shattering, dispersing, and confounding one another-s motion." — (Optics, p. 339.) gas, and the detonation of gunpowder, are more like an electric... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1846 - 588 pages
...the first, put them into those fits. But liow two ethers can be diffused through all spa>'e, one <f which acts upon the other, and by consequence is re-acted upon, without retarding, shatter! ne, dispersing, .and confounding one another's motion, is inconceivable." Had this great man... | |
 | David Brewster - Great Britain - 1855 - 504 pages
...overtake the vibrations of the first, put them into those fits. But how two ethers can be different through all space, one of which acts upon the other,...upon, without retarding, shattering, dispersing, and compounding one another's motions, is inconceivable. And against filling the heavens with fluid mediums,... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 282 pages
...of laws believed to be well established by positive evidence, as a perpetual motion. How two ethers can be diffused through all space, one of which acts...confounding one another's motions, is inconceivable. Sewton, Optlcks. A contradiction is incotueivable only when all experience opposes itself to the formation... | |
 | W. Sedgwick - Argon - 1896 - 308 pages
...one of them constitute light." But then he starts the following objections : — " But how two ethers can be diffused through all space, one of which acts...confounding one another's motions is inconceivable. And against filling the heavens with fluid mediums, unless they be exceeding rare, a great objection... | |
 | Cadwallader Colden - New York (State) - 1920 - 476 pages
...is it not expanded thro' all the heavens? After his 28 Quaere he Bays expressly, But how two ^Ethers can be diffused through all Space one of which acts upon the other & by Consequence is reacted upon, without retarding & confounding one another's Motions is inconceivable... | |
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... are swifter, and as often as they overtake the vibrations of the first put them into those fits. But how two ethers can be diffused through all space, one of which acts upon the other and by consequence is reacted upon, without retarding, shattering,... 
