The unity of the physical sciences : being an inquiry into the causes of gravitation and polarity, with an application of the results to some of the principal phænomena in each of the physical sciences / by John Dickson.

  • Dickson, John, 1974-
Date:
1859
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Credit: The unity of the physical sciences : being an inquiry into the causes of gravitation and polarity, with an application of the results to some of the principal phænomena in each of the physical sciences / by John Dickson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PEEFACE. Being strongly impressed with a belief iu the idea, that if there reaUy be an elastic ether or medium pervading space, it must be necessary in tracing the effects of its action to take into account not only the force or motion proceeding from the atoms of matter, but also that force which must act from without, maintaining, or restoring when disturbed, the equilibrium of the medium, I en- deavoured to trace the consequences of such an action, and was thus led to a series of results very singularly accordant with many of the principal phsenomena in every department of Natural Philosophy, whilst, the longer I studied the subject, and the more familiar I became with its action, the wider grew the field of application, and the more perfect and minute became the accordance of fact with theory. In the following pages will be found an account of the results obtained, and the reasoning which led to them. I have drawn it up as simply and concisely as I could, my object being, by putting the points at issue plainly and clearly before my readers, to obtain an answer to the question—Are these results correctly deduced from the premises or