: The Poetry of Science; or Studies of the Physical Phenomena of Nature by Hunt Robert - Science; Physics

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PREFACE. iii

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INTRODUCTION. ix

GENERAL CONDITIONS OF MATTER.

Its varied Characters, and constant change of external Form--The Grain of Dust, its Properties and Powers--Combinations in inorganic Masses and in organized Creations--Our knowledge of Matter--Theory of Ultimate Atoms--The Physical Forces acting on the Composition of Masses--The certainty of the exercise of subtile principles, which are beyond the reach of experimental Science 1

MOTION.

Are the Physical Forces modes of Motion?--Motion defined--Philosophical Views of Motion, and the Principles to which it has been referred--Motions of the Earth and of the Solar System--Visible Proofs of the Earth's Motion on its Axis--Influence of the proper Motions of the Earth on the Conditions of Matter--Theory of the Conversion of Motion into Heat, &c.--The Physical Forces regarded as principles independent of Motion, although the Cause and often apparently the Effects of it 7

GRAVITATION.

The Forms of Matter--Shape of the Earth--Probability of the Mass forming this Planet having existed in a Nebulous State--Zodiacal Lights--Comets--Volatilization of Solid Matter by Artificial means--The principle of Gravitation--Its Influence through Space and within the smallest Limits--Gravitating powers of the Planets--Density of the Earth--Certainty of Newton's Law of the Inverse Square--Discovery of Neptune--State of a Body relieved from Gravitation--Experiment explaining Saturn's Ring, &c.--General inference 21

MOLECULAR FORCES.

Conditions of Matter--Variety of organized Forms--Inorganic Forms--All matter reducible to the most simple conditions--Transmutation, a natural operation--Chemical Elementary Principles--Divisibility of Matter--Atom--Molecules--Particles--Molecular Force includes several Agencies--Instanced in the Action of Heat on Bodies--All Bodies porous--Solution--Mixture--Combination--Centres of Force--Different States of Matter --Theories of Franklin, AEpinus, and Coulomb--Electrical and Magnetic Agencies--Ancient Notions--Cohesive Attraction, &c. 35

CRYSTALLOGENIC FORCES.

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