An Introduction to the Elements of ScienceLittle, Brown & Company, 1894 - 392 páginas |
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An Introduction to the Elements of Science (Classic Reprint) St. George Jackson Mivart Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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abstract acid action aëriform bodies affirmative algebra animals ante become called carbonic carbonic acid Carthage cause cells centre chemical energy Cisalpine Gaul colour consists contained denote Diocletian direction earth earth's surface effect electricity elements equal evident existence expressed external fact fall feelings feet figure force frond genus glass gravity Greece Greek groups heat idea intellectual iron Jews kind known language law of contradiction less light liquid living creatures magnetic mammals mass matter mental motion multiplied negative object Old Red Sandstone organisms oxygen particles pass perception plants poles possess premiss pressure produced propositions prothallus protoplasm Pyrrho quantity radix rays reader reasoning recognise refracted relativity of knowledge respect result Roman Rome second Punic war side Similarly solid spoken substance sulphur supposed syllogism temperature termed things thought tion truth tube vapour various velocity vessel weight
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Página 55 - Laws of Motion I. Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed force to change that state.
Página 34 - A POSTULATE is a self-evident problem ; such as, — 1. That a straight line may be drawn from one point to another. 2. That a straight line may be produced to any length. 3. That a straight line may be drawn through a given point parallel to another straight line.
Página 66 - We know that by the law of gravitation, the force with which one body attracts another varies directly as its mass, and inversely as the square of its distance...
Página 38 - If a straight line be divided into any two parts, the square of the whole line is equal to the squares of the two parts, together with twice the rectangle contained by the parts.
Página 299 - ... figure ; (which is far the most natural and clear of all, as to this alone Aristotle's dictum may be at once applied.) In the second figure the middle term is the predicate of both premises : in the third, the subject of both : in the fourth, the predicate of the major premiss, and the subject of the minor.
Página 23 - The known quantities are represented by the first letters of the alphabet, a, b, c, d, &c. ; and the unknown, by the final letters, x, y, z, &c.
Página 25 - If equal quantities be subtracted from equal quantities, the remainders will be equal. 3. If equal quantities be multiplied by equal quantities, the products will be equal.
Página 47 - If a moving point possess simultaneously velocities which are represented in magnitude and direction by the two sides of a parallelogram drawn from a point, they are equivalent to a velocity which is represented in magnitude and direction by the diagonal of the parallelogram passing through the point.
Página 389 - Either this system of philosophy is merely relative or phenomenal, and cannot be known to be true, or else it is absolutely true, and can be known so to be. But it must be merely relative and phenomenal, if everything known by man is such. Its value, then, can be only relative and phenomenal, therefore it cannot be known to correspond with external reality, and cannot be asserted to be true ; and anybody who asserts that we can know it to be true, thereby asserts that it is false to say that our...
Página 298 - When the middle term is made the subject of the major premiss, and the predicate of the minor...