 | 1821 - 468 pages
...will acquiesce. Take a portion of earth possessing the least possible weight that can be conceived ; let this earth be converted into water, by the means...nature, it is evident that this water will have weight, because all water must have it : now it will be greater or less, or equal to that in the earth. Greater,... | |
 | Gilbert Newton Lewis - Science - 1926 - 248 pages
...law of conservation of mass, was himself convinced by the argument that he offered to the public?: "Let there be taken a portion of earth which shall...the earth, or less than it, or else equal to it. My 2 Jean Rey, The Increase, in Weight of Tin and Lead on Calcination (1630). Alembic Club Reprints. There... | |
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... any particular theory of matter. He is attempting a kind of a priori demonstration of the principle. It is contained in a few lines: "Let there be taken a piece of earth, which has in it the least weight possible and beyond which nothing smaller can... 