Martin's Theories of Horizontal Currents in the Ocean and Atmosphere, and of Eastation of Planetary and Other Celestial Bodies ...E. Stanford, 1875 - 90 oldal |
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acceleration angle angular angular momentum aphelion atmosphere attraction axis calm belt Caribbean Sea cause celestial bodies centre of gravity centrifugal effect centrifugal energy circular orbit circulation comet common centre constant constraining guide course Davis Straits deflected centrifugal force demonstrated density Deschamel difference dish earth energy of eastation equal equator equilibrium fall flow Gulf of Mexico Gulf Stream heat horizontal currents increased infinitesimal calculus latitude lighter mass miles momentum moon motion move movement nature nebulous matter Newton observed ocean currents opposite and parallel overflow parallel and opposite parallel direction parallelogram of forces passing perihelion phenomena planet planetary orbit polar poles position pound weight power of eastation pressure primitive impulse produce resistance revolving rotation round saltness Saturn sawdust says similar Sir John Herschel space sphere Straits of Florida sun's repulsive surface theory tion trade-winds urged velocity vertical warm warmer whilst winds zone
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50. oldal - But hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypothesis ; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.
49. oldal - Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the power of gravity, but have not yet assigned the cause of this power.
1. oldal - There is a river in the ocean: in the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows; its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm; the Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater.
50. oldal - I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. In this philosophy particular propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered general by induction. Thus it was that the impenetrability, the mobility, and the impulsive force of bodies, and the laws of motion and of gravitation, were discovered....
1. oldal - Gulf Stream water, while the other half is in common water of the sea ; so sharp is the line, and such the want of affinity between those waters, and such, too, the reluctance, so to speak, on the part of those of the Gulf Stream to mingle with the common water of the sea.
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