 | William Whewell - Science - 1837 - 1048 pages
...moon and the tides at the moment of the creation. You will observe also that the sun, which in France has nothing to do with the business, here comes in...quarter of it. Among you Cartesians, all is done by an impulsion which one does not well understand ; with the Newtonians, it is done by an attraction... | |
 | William Whewell - Science - 1837 - 556 pages
...quarter of it. Among you Cartesians, all is done by an impulsion which one does not well understand ; with the Newtonians, it is done by an attraction of which we know the cause no better. At Paris you fancy the earth shaped like a melon, at London it is flattened on the two sides." It was... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1894 - 552 pages
...the sea which gravitates towards the Moon. . . . You will observe also that the Sun, which in France has nothing to do with the business, here comes in...attraction of which we know the cause no better."* Indeed, the Newtonian opinions had scarcely any disciples in France till Voltaire asserted their claims... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 622 pages
...Moon and the Tides at the moment of the creation. You will observe also that the sun, which in France has nothing to do with the business, here comes in...quarter of it. Among you Cartesians, all is done by an impulsion which one does not well understand ; with the Newtonians, it is done by an attraction... | |
 | William Whewell - Science - 1858 - 582 pages
...Moon and the Tides at the moment of the creation. You will observe also that the sun, which in France has nothing to do with the business, here comes in...quarter of it. Among you Cartesians, all is done by an impulsion which one does not well understand ; with the Newtonians, it is done by an attraction... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1894 - 944 pages
...the sea which gravitates towards the moon. . . . You will observe also that the sun, which in France has nothing to do with the business, here comes in...an attraction of which we know the cause no better "4 Indeed, the Newtonian opinions had scarcely any disciples in France till Voltaire asserted their... | |
 | Heinrich Hertz - Electric waves - 1893 - 324 pages
...the sea which gravitates towards the moon. . . . You will observe also that the sun, which in France has nothing to do with the business, here comes in...no better." l 1 Whewell's History of the I-nductive Scieiuxs, vol. ii. pp. 202, 203. Indeed, the Newtonian opinions had scarcely any disciples in France... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1894 - 686 pages
...the sea which gravitates towards the moon. . . . You will observe also that the sun, which in France has nothing to do with the business, here comes in...an attraction of which we know the cause no better "* Indeed, the Newtonian opinions had scarcely any disciples in France till Voltaire asserted their... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - Geology - 1894 - 642 pages
...the sea which gravitates towards the Moon. . . . You will observe also that the Sun, which in France has nothing to do with the business, here comes in...attraction of which we know the cause no better." 1 Indeed, the Newtonian opinions had scarcely any disciples in France till Voltaire asserted their... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1894 - 538 pages
...the sea which gravitates towards the Moon. . . . You will observe also that the Sun, which in France has nothing to do with the business, here comes in...attraction of which we know the cause no better."* Indeed, the Newtonian opinions had scarcely any disciples in France till Voltaire asserted their claims... | |
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Paris you see the universe composed of vortices of subtle matter ; at London we see nothing of the kind. With you it is the pressure of the moon which causes the tides of the sea; in England it is the sea which gravitates towards the moon. . . . You will... 
