Curiosities of Heat
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God and the World: A Survey of Thought
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The Riddle of the Universe at the Close of the Nineteenth Century
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER Xn THE LAW OF SUBSTANCE The Fundamental Chemical Law of the Constancy of Matter,The Fundamental Physical Law of the Conservation of Energy,Combination of Both Laws in the Law of Substance,The Kinetic, Pyknotic, and Dualistic Ideas of Substance,Monism of Matter,Ponderable Matter,Atoms and Elements,Affinity of the Elements,The Soul of the Atom (Feeling and Inclination),Existence and Character of Ether,Ether and Ponderable Matter,Force and Energy,Potential and Actual Force,Unity of Natural Forces,Supremacy of the Law of Substance TTHE supreme and all-pervading law of nature, the . true and only cosmological law, is, in my opinion, the law of substance; its discovery and establishment is the greatest intellectual triumph of the nineteenth century, in the sense that all other known laws of nature are subordinate to it. Under the name of "law of substance" we embrace two supreme laws of different origin and age,the older is the chemical law of the "conservation of matter," and the younger is the physical law of the "conservation of energy." It will be self-evident to many readers, and it is acknowledged by most of the scientific men of the day, that these two great laws are essentially inseparable. This fundamental thesis, however, is still much contested in some quarters, and we must proceed to furnish the proof of it. But we must first devote a few words to each of the two laws. Cf. Monism, by Ernst Haeckel. The law of the "persistence" or "indestructibility of matter," established by Lavoisier in 1789, may be formulated thus: The sum of matter, which fills infinite space, is unchangeable. A body has merely changed its form, when it seems to have disappeared. When coal burns, it is changed into carbonic-acid gas by...
Where Science and Religion Meet
Excerpt from Where Science and Religion Meet We are still, as in Plato's age, groping about for a new method more comprehensive than any of those that now prevail; and also more permanent. And we seem to see at a distance the promise of such a method, which can hardly be any other than the method of idealized experience, having roots which strike far down into the history of philosophy. It is a method which does not divorce the present from the past, or the part from the whole, or the ab stract from the concrete, or theory from 'fact, or the divine from the human, or one science from another, but labours to connect them. Along such a road we, have proceeded a few steps, sufficient, perhaps, to make us re?ect on the want of method which prevails in our own day. In another age, all the branches of knowledge, whether relating to God or man or nature, will become theknowledge of the revelation of a single science, and all things, like the stars in heaven, will shed their light upon one another.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.