 | A. Graham Cairns-Smith - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 346 pages
...development in physics since Newton2. Here is another quote from Maxwell to help us see what he was up to: The conception of a particle having its motion connected...somewhat awkward. I do not bring it forward as a mode of connection existing in nature, or even as that which I would willingly assent to as an electrical hypothesis.... | |
 | Crosbie Smith - Science - 1998 - 424 pages
...electric current, their rotation serves to transmit the motion of the vortices from one part of the field to another, and the tangential pressures thus called into play constitute electromotive force'.67 At the same time, however, he admitted to the idle-wheel hypothesis as 'somewhat awkward'... | |
 | Donald Stephen Lowell Cardwell - History - 2001 - 596 pages
...Victorian philistine; he was developing his profound ideas on the nature of electromagnetic fields: The conception of a particle having its motion connected...somewhat awkward. I do not bring it forward as a mode of connection existing in nature or even as that which I would willingly assent to as an electrical hypothesis.... | |
 | Malcolm S. Longair - Science - 2003 - 592 pages
...the electromagnetic field in a vacuum. Maxwell was quite clear about the significance of the model: The conception of a particle having its motion connected...somewhat awkward. I do not bring it forward as a mode of connection existing in Nature ... It is however a mode of connection which is mechanically conceivable... | |
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The conception of a particle having its motion connected with that of a vortex by perfect rolling contact may appear somewhat awkward. I do not bring it forward as a mode of connexion existing in nature, or even as that which I would willingly assent... 