When, in an experiment, all known causes being allowed for, there remain certain unexplained effects (excessively slight it may be), these must be carefully investigated, and every conceivable variation of arrangement of apparatus, etc., tried ; until,... Treatise on Natural Philosophy - Page 269by William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1867 - 727 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alfred Marshall Mayer - Matter - 1868 - 140 pages
...nature. "The term experience is often used to denote either observation, or experiment, or both. [" A most important remark, due to Herschel, regards...recent history of Natural Philosophy in so doing. Thus, for example, the slight anomalies observed in the motion of Uranus led Adams and Le Verrier to the... | |
| Alfred Marshall Mayer - Matter - 1868 - 140 pages
...nature. "The term experience is often used to denote either observation, or experiment, or both. [" A most important remark, due to Herschel, regards...recent history of Natural Philosophy in so doing. Thus, for example, the slight anomalies observed in the motion of Uranus led Adams and Le Verrier to the... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Mechanics, Analytic - 1872 - 316 pages
...methods, and thus interrogates in every conceivable manner the subject of his investigations. 328. A most important remark, due to Herschel, regards...few instances, and to say nothing of the discovery of electricity and magnetism by the ancients, the peculiar smell observed in a room in which an electrical... | |
| James Samuelson, William Crookes - Science - 1873 - 606 pages
...these must be carefully investigated, and every conceivable variation of arrangement of apparatus, &c. tried ; until, if possible, we manage so to exaggerate...so doing. Thus, to take only a very few instances, to say nothing of the discovery of electricity and magnetism by the ancients, the peculiar smell observed... | |
| Science - 1873 - 636 pages
...these must be carefully investigated, and every conceivable variation of arrangement of apparatus, &c. tried ; until, if possible, we manage so to exaggerate...so doing. Thus, to take only a very few instances, i873-J Notices of Books. 411 to say nothing of the discovery of electricity and magnetism by the ancients,... | |
| Science - 1877 - 612 pages
...these must be carefully investigated, and every conceivable variation of arrangement of apparatus, &c., tried, until, if possible, we manage so to exaggerate...recent history of natural philosophy in so doing."* As an illustration of the use made by genius of " residual phenomena " I might cite the discovery of... | |
| James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - Science - 1877 - 600 pages
...these must be carefully investigated, and every conceivable variation of arrangement of apparatus, &c., tried, until, if possible, we manage so to exaggerate...recent history of natural philosophy in so doing."* As an illustration of the use made by genius of " residual phenomena " I might cite the discovery of... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Mechanics, Analytic - 1879 - 334 pages
...methods, and thus interrogates in every conceivably useful manner the subject of his investigations. 328. A most important remark, due to Herschel, regards...Philosophy in so doing. Thus, to take only a very few T. • 8 instances, and to say nothing of the discovery of electricity and magnetism by the ancients,... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Calculators - 1879 - 572 pages
...conceivable variation of arrangement of apparatus, etc., tried; until, if possible, we manage so to isolate the residual phenomenon as to be able to detect its...Natural Philosophy in so doing. Thus, to take only ia very few instances, and to say nothing of the discovery of phenom<n*. . . . . .. 11 electricity... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Mechanics, Analytic - 1888 - 569 pages
...conceivable variation of arrangement of apparatus, etc., tried; until, if possible, we manage so to isolate the residual phenomenon as to be able to detect its...Natural Philosophy in so doing. Thus, to take only phenomena. ,.. , '-11 • i T a very few instances, and to say nothing of the discovery of electricity... | |
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