In all cases when a particular agent or cause is to be studied, experiments should be arranged in such a way as to lead if possible to results depending on it alone ; or, if this cannot be done, they should be arranged so as to increase the effects due... Treatise on Natural Philosophy - Page 269by William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1867 - 727 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Stanley Jevons - Logic - 1870 - 376 pages
...Philosophy, Vol. I. p. 307, as follows : — "In all cases when a particular agent or cause is to be studied, experiments should be arranged in such a way as to...essentially modifying the effects of the principal agent." It would be an imperfect and unsatisfactory experiment to take air of which the oxygen has been converted... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Mechanics, Analytic - 1872 - 316 pages
...existence of terrestrial magnetism. 325. In all cases when a particular agent or cause is to be studied, experiments should be arranged in such a way as to...essentially modifying, the effects of the principal agent. Thus, in order to find the nature of the action of a galvanic current upon a magnetized needle, we... | |
| James Samuelson, William Crookes - Science - 1873 - 606 pages
...deduction of results. In all cases, to quote further, when a particular agent or cause is to be studied, experiments should be arranged in such a way as to lead, if possible, to results depending upon it alone. Or, if this cannot be done, they should be arranged so as to increase the effects due... | |
| Science - 1873 - 636 pages
...deduction of results. In all cases, to quote further, when a particular agent or cause is to be studied, experiments should be arranged in such a way as to lead, if possible, to results depending upon it alone. Or, if this cannot be done, they should be arranged so as to increase the effects due... | |
| William Stanley Jevons - Logic - 1876 - 366 pages
...Philosophy, Vol. ip 307, as follows:— " In all cases when a particular agent or cause is to be studied, experiments should be arranged in such a way as to...exceed the unavoidable concomitants, that the latter maybe considered as only disturbing, not essentially modifying the effects of the principal agent."... | |
| William Stanley Jevons - Logic - 1879 - 364 pages
...Philosophy, Vol. I. p. 307, as follows: — "In all cases when a particular agent or cause is to be studied, experiments should be arranged in such a way as to...exceed the unavoidable concomitants, that the latter maybe considered as only disturbing, not essentially modifying the effects of the principal agent."... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Dynamics - 1879 - 346 pages
...learned the existence of terrestrial magnetism. 325. When a particular agent or cause is to be studied, experiments should be arranged in such a way as to...this cannot be done, they should be arranged so as to show differences produced by varying it. 326. Thus to determine the resistance of a wire against the... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Calculators - 1879 - 572 pages
...terrestrial magnetism. Rules for 375. When a particular agent or cause is to be studied, of'eMHsii?** experiments should be arranged in such a way as to lead if munta' possible to results depending on it alone; or, if this cannot be done, they should be arranged... | |
| William Stanley Jevons - Logic - 1881 - 364 pages
...Philosophy, Vol. I. p. 307, as follows: — "In all cases when a particular agent or cause is to be studied, experiments should be arranged in such a way as to...essentially modifying the effects of the principal agent." It would be an imperfect and unsatisfactory experiment to take air of which the oxygen has been converted... | |
| John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1887 - 742 pages
...(Natural philosophy, vol. ip 307), " In all cases when a particular agent or cause is to be studied, experiments should be arranged in such a way as to lead, if possible, to results dependingon it alone ; or, if this cannot be done, they should be arranged in such a way as to increase... | |
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