| Sidney Ochs - Science - 2004 - 452 pages
...solid filaments. He asks rhetorically if in nerve there is not a certain most subtle spirit [the ether] which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies by the force and action of which... all sensations [are] excited and the members of animal bodies move at the command of the will, namely,... | |
| Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 pages
...it is enough that gravity does really exist, and acts according to the laws which we have explained. And now we might add something concerning a certain...particles of bodies mutually attract one another, and cohere, and electric bodies operate, light is emitted, reflected, refracted, inflected, and heats... | |
| Ellwood Johnson - Puritan movements in literature - 2005 - 300 pages
...implication that in the last analysis even the human soul may be proven to be merely "mechanical." 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, . . . and all sensation is excited, and the members... | |
| Arne Stollberg - Music - 2006 - 320 pages
...all the motions of the celestial bodies" - auf einen „electric and elastic spirit" zurückführte: „And now we might add something concerning a certain...gross bodies; by the force and action of which spirit [...] all sensation is excited, and the members of animal bodies move at the command of the will, namely,... | |
| Allison Muri - Social Science - 2007 - 321 pages
...contracting and dilating them?'49 Newton asked. In the General Scholium of Principia he elaborated: 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... | |
| B. A. Lustig, B.A. Brody, Gerald P. McKenny - Philosophy - 2008 - 338 pages
...(1713) to Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy: "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 one another at near distances and cohere, if contiguous; and electric bodies operate to greater... | |
| Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - Electronic journals - 1896 - 550 pages
...AE DOLBEAR, Tuft's College, Massachusetts. 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... | |
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