Speculations Concerning the Ether and Its Functions |
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Adventures in Philosophy apex aphelion axis cause celestial bodies centre concept conic cosmic rays develope direct action distance Earth Earth's orbit Earth's pressure electromagnetic series equatorial Ether-monad ether-ring nodes ether-ring represented etheron unit even-numbered evidence explain Falling Bodies flow follows Galactic grain or corpuscle gravitational force hypothesis increment inflow of Ether influence Inverse Squares involuted JAMES CHALLIS Law of Falling Law of Inverse low potential zone Mars Moon Moon's Nebula nebulous matter node or nodal North Pole nute odd-numbered nodes old law opposite polarity ahead orbital ether-ring original etheron outflow perihelion phenomena physicists Planetary Ether-Rings planets and satellites position Pressure Theory principal nodal group react reaction Rene Descartes Repulsion result revolve Saturn secondary ether-rings shell Sir Isaac Newton Sir Oliver Lodge solar ether-rings Solar System South Pole space spinning top Sun's Theory of Gravitation three-fold thru tidal line tion Trojan asteroids Universe vortex vortices Zodiacal Light