 | Literature - 1913 - 878 pages
...are detached and countable. Then we recognize the air and other media, and so emphasize continuity in flowing quantities. Then we detect atoms and numerical properties, and discontinuity once more makes it appearance. Then w« Invent the ether and are impressed with continuity again. But this Is not likely... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1914 - 926 pages
...the question as to which way ultimate victory lies in the fight between continuity and discontinuity. On the surface of nature at first we see discontinuity;...continuity and flowing quantities. Then we detect atom* and numerical properties, and discontinuity once mere makes its appearance. Then we invent the... | |
 | Sir Oliver Lodge - Atoms - 1924 - 218 pages
...Mathematics," at the end of a chapter on Incommensurables and Discontinuity, occurs the following paragraph : " On the surface of Nature at first we see discontinuity,...and discontinuity once more makes its appearance. Then_ ERRATA. Page 51. Line 2 from bottom. For 10,00o read 1,o0o. » 53. , 7. For 10,00o read 1,000.... | |
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I feel inclined to urge that it largely turns on the question as to which way ultimate victory lies in the fight between continuity and discontinuity. On the surface of nature at first we see discontinuity; objects detached and countable. Then we realise... 