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The Ether of Space
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ISBN10: 1547279109
ISBN13: 9781547279104
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 17 2017
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781547279104
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 17 2017
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The derivation of the word seems to indicate some connexion in men's minds with the idea of Fire: the other three elements, Earth, Water, Air, representing the solid, liquid, and gaseous conditions of ordinary matter respectively. The name ther suggests a far more subtle or penetrating and ultra-material kind of substance. Newton employs the term for the medium which fills space-not only space which appears to be empty, but space also which appears to be full; for the luminiferous ether must undoubtedly penetrate between the atoms-must exist in the pores so to speak-of every transparent substance, else light could not travel through it. The following is an extract from Newton's surmises concerning this medium: - Qu. 18.
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