Nomos: An Attempt to Demonstrate a Central Physical Law in NatureLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856 - 198 sider |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Search after this central law in the phenomena of electricity | 9 |
The explanation of this rotation | 10 |
Apparent difference a difference of quantity and not of kind | 16 |
The analogies of the states called conduction and insula | 20 |
The forces concerned in the current are not of greater intensity | 45 |
The tides support the idea that the solar heat acts upon | 48 |
The transfer of matter in the current to be referred to chemical | 51 |
The laws of Kepler | 95 |
Some difficulties which are not altogether explained by this | 105 |
How the particular orbital eccentricities of the planets are | 116 |
Another great objection to this theory | 124 |
CHAP III | 125 |
The metamorphosis of comets supports the idea that the solar | 146 |
This focus may undergo the changes which the nucleus is seen | 150 |
The solar heat may cause the ejection of nebulous matter from | 153 |
The existence of true repulsion questionable | 59 |
The connexion between electricity and magnetism | 65 |
No special electrical currents in a magnet | 83 |
The expansive effects of heat to be explained on the same | 89 |
The law of the laboratory will account for the movements | 94 |
The remaining metamorphoses may be accounted for in | 156 |
The idea of repeated revolutions not unscriptural | 170 |
The original condition of the earth may be that which is | 177 |
Evidence that these strata were formed in one epoch | 184 |
CONCLUSION | 197 |