The New Physics and Its EvolutionK. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1907 - 344 pagini |
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... idea of Ether due to Descartes - Ether must be imponderable - Fresnel shows light vibrations to be transverse- e - Transverse vibrations cannot exist in fluid - Ether must be discon- tinuous ( pp . 169-175 ) . § 2. Radiations : Wave ...
... idea of Ether due to Descartes - Ether must be imponderable - Fresnel shows light vibrations to be transverse- e - Transverse vibrations cannot exist in fluid - Ether must be discon- tinuous ( pp . 169-175 ) . § 2. Radiations : Wave ...
Pagina 10
... idea is again met with in the words of Cornu in 1896 : " The general tendency should be to show how the facts observed and the pheno- mena measured , though first brought together by empirical laws , end , by the impulse of successive ...
... idea is again met with in the words of Cornu in 1896 : " The general tendency should be to show how the facts observed and the pheno- mena measured , though first brought together by empirical laws , end , by the impulse of successive ...
Pagina 11
... idea of Descartes as an ideal to be reached sooner or later . Certain scholars - particularly those of the English School - outrunning experiment , and pushing things to extremes , took pleasure in proposing very curious mechanical ...
... idea of Descartes as an ideal to be reached sooner or later . Certain scholars - particularly those of the English School - outrunning experiment , and pushing things to extremes , took pleasure in proposing very curious mechanical ...
Pagina 12
... idea to strict criticism . From the philoso- phical point of view , they first enquire whether it is really demonstrated that there exists nothing else in the knowable than matter and move- ment . They ask themselves whether it is not ...
... idea to strict criticism . From the philoso- phical point of view , they first enquire whether it is really demonstrated that there exists nothing else in the knowable than matter and move- ment . They ask themselves whether it is not ...
Pagina 16
... idea of quality , understood , of course , not in the scholastic sense , since from this quality we can argue with some precision by representing it under numerical symbols , but still constituting an element of differentiation and of ...
... idea of quality , understood , of course , not in the scholastic sense , since from this quality we can argue with some precision by representing it under numerical symbols , but still constituting an element of differentiation and of ...
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Pagina 19 - I often say that if you can measure that of which you speak, and can express it by a number, you know something of your subject ; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meagre and unsatisfactory.