 | Geoorge W. Holley - 1894 - 312 pages
...although it ceases to be luminous. Sir Isaac Newton wrote as follows, Principia, Book III., p. 314. "And now we might add something concerning a certain...which spirit the particles of bodies mutually attract each other at near distances and cohere if contiguous; and elective bodies operate to greater distances,... | |
 | Park Benjamin - Electricity - 1895 - 634 pages
...of the Newtonian ether — of that most subtle matter which Newton described as pervading and lying hid in all gross bodies; " by the force and action...particles of bodies mutually attract one another at small distances and cohere when in contact, and electric bodies operate at greater distances as well... | |
 | Amos Emerson Dolbear - Ether (Space) - 1897 - 138 pages
...Conceptions of Physical Phenomena CHAPTER I And now we might add something concerning a most subtile spirit which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies,...and action of which spirit the particles of bodies attract each other at near distances, and cohere if contiguous, and electric bodies operate at greater... | |
 | Gabriel Delanne - Future life - 1904 - 302 pages
...of an ethereal medium is well known. He says in the Principia, "We might add something concerning a most subtle spirit, which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies, etc. " ; and again, " Perhaps the whole frame of nature may be nothing but various contextures of some... | |
 | W. Denham Verschoyle - Electricity - 1908 - 290 pages
...to the most modern view. In the Principia he says — " And now we might add something concerning a most subtle spirit which pervades and lies hid in...and action of which spirit the particles of bodies attract each other at near distances, and cohere if contiguous, and electric bodies operate at greater... | |
 | Adolph Judah Snow - Gravitation - 1926 - 270 pages
...the very centres of the sun and planets without suffering the least diminution of its forces. . . . And now we might add something concerning a certain...gross bodies ; by the force and action of which spirit ... bodies attract, . . . cohere, . . . light is limited. . . .' Again : ' 'Tis very certain that there... | |
 | Charles Coulston Gillispie - Science - 1960 - 596 pages
...philosophy." And then, to make interpretation as difficult as science, the next and last paragraph begins: And now we might add something concerning a certain...and action of which spirit the particles of bodies attract one another at near distances, and cohere, if contiguous; and electric bodies operate to greater... | |
 | Isaac Newton - Biography & Autobiography - 1962 - 452 pages
...Principia, so often quoted in the form due to the translator, Andrew Motte, which reads as follows: And now we might add something concerning a certain...and lies hid in all gross bodies ; by the force and 1 Rouse Ball, 125-6. 1 Compare Opticks, Quaery 22. 207 action of which spirit the particles of bodies... | |
 | Stephen Edelston Toulmin, Stephen Toulmin, June Goodfield - History - 1982 - 422 pages
...passage that the parallels between his ideas and those of the Stoics become most clearly apparent.) And now we might add something concerning a certain...force and action of which spirit the particles of bodics attract one another at near distance, and cohere . . . and all sensation is excited, and the... | |
 | Z. Bechler - Biography & Autobiography - 1982 - 264 pages
...Scholium Generate that he added to the second edition of the Principia, published in 1713, he wrote of "a certain most subtle spirit which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies." It was this active spirit that gave rise, he supposed, to the electrical attractions and repulsions... | |
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And now we might add something concerning a certain most subtle spirit which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies; by the force and action of which spirit the particles of bodies attract one another at near distances, and cohere, if contiguous; and... 
