The Poetry of Science; or, Studies of the Physical Phenomena of Nature

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Robert Taylor Hunt. The Poetry of Science; or, Studies of the Physical Phenomena of Nature

The Poetry of Science; or, Studies of the Physical Phenomena of Nature

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PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

THE. POETRY OF SCIENCE

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

INDEX

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Robert Hunt

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The habit of leaving purely inductive examination for the delusive charms of hypothesis—of viewing the material world as a metaphysical bundle of essential properties, and nothing more—has led some eminent philosophers to struggle with the task of proving that all the wonderful manifestations of the great physical powers of the universe are but modifications of motion, without the evidence of any antecedent force.[3]

The views of metaphysicians regarding motion involve many subtle considerations which need not at present detain us. We can only consider motion as a change of place in a given mass of matter. Now matter cannot effect this of itself, no change of place being possible without a mover; and, consequently, motion cannot be a property of matter, in the strict sense in which that term should be accepted.[4]

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