 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1802 - 638 Seiten
...vibrations in " the ether, which are propagated every way from those bodies " in straight lines, and cause a sensation of light by beating " and dashing...application of this hypothesis to the " solution of phenomena, I take to be this : that the agitated " parts of bodies, according to their several sizes,... | |
 | David Brewster - 1855 - 504 Seiten
...excite vibrations in the ether which are propagated every way from these bodies in straight lines, and cause a sensation of light by beating and dashing...sensation of sound by beating against the organs of hearing."2 In his reply to Hooke, on the llth of July 1673, Newton distinctly states that this, which... | |
 | Anonymous - 1861 - 604 Seiten
...until a very much later period. If lijJbt'Was -caused by a vibrating medium, as Hooke .maintained, ' something after the manner that vibrations in 'the...sound by beating against the organs of .hearing,' how came it that sound, after passing through an aperture, spread itself in all directions, while light... | |
 | 1861 - 600 Seiten
...removed until a very much later period. If light was caused by a vibrating medium, as Hooke maintained, ' something after the manner that vibrations in the...of sound by beating against the organs of hearing,' how «ame it that sound, after passing through an aperture, spread itself in all directions, while... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1861 - 604 Seiten
...removed until a very much later period. If light was caused by a vibrating medium, as Hooke maintained, ' something after the manner that vibrations in the air cause a sensation of sound bv beating against the organs of hearing,' how came it that sound, after passing through an aperture,... | |
 | 1875 - 1140 Seiten
...excite vibrations in the ether, which are propagated every way from those bodies in straight lines, and cause a sensation of light, by beating and dashing...application of this hypothesis to the solution of phenomena I take to be this : that the agitated parts of bodies, according to their several sizes,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1877 - 534 Seiten
...excite vibrations in the aether, which are propagated every way from those bodies in straight lines, and cause a sensation of light by beating and dashing...the eye ; something after the manner that vibrations of the air cause a sensation of sound by beating against the organ of hearing.' Now the most free and... | |
 | 1877 - 652 Seiten
...the aether, which are propagated every way from those bodies in straight lines, and cause a sensatiou of light by beating and dashing against the bottom...the eye ; something after the manner that vibrations of the air cause a sensation of sound by beating against the organ of hearing.' ]Sfow the most free... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1915 - 672 Seiten
...excite vibrations in the ether which are propagated every way from those bodies in straight lines, and cause a sensation of light by beating and dashing...of sound by beating against the organs of hearing." Again, to quote some later words of Newton, Hooke "changed Descartes's pressing or progressive motion... | |
 | 1876 - 676 Seiten
...excite vibrations in the ether, which are propagated every way from those bodies in straight lines, and cause a sensation of light, by beating and dashing...application of this hypothesis to the solution of phenomena I take to be this : that the agitated parts -of bodies, according to their several sizes,... | |
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The objector's hypothesis, as to the fundamental part of it, is not against me. That fundamental supposition is, that the parts of bodies, when briskly agitated, do excite vibrations in the ether, which are propagated every way from those bodies in straight... 
