Aether and Gravitation

weight, density, elasticity, inertia, and compressibility for the aether, and so brought the theory of the aether into perfect harmony with all observation and experiments relat...

PAGE ART. 1. GRAVITATION 1 " 2. CAUSE OF GRAVITATION 1 " 3. NEWTON'S RULES OF PHILOSOPHY 3 " 4. FIRST RULE OF PHILOSOPHY 3 " 5. SECOND RULE OF PHILOSOPHY 4 " 6. THIRD RULE OF PH...

ART. 18. GRAVITATION ATTRACTION 24 " 19. UNIVERSALITY OF GRAVITATION 24 " 20. DIRECTION OF THE FORCES 26 " 21. PROPORTION OF THE FORCES 26 " 22. LAW OF INVERSE SQUARES 27 " 23....

ART. 29. WHAT IS MATTER? 40 " 30. CONSERVATION OF MATTER 42 " 31. MATTER IS ATOMIC 42 " 32. WHAT IS AN ATOM? 43 " 33. THE ATOMIC THEORY 44 " 34. KINDS OF ATOMS 44 " 35. ELEMENTS...

ART. 42. AETHER IS MATTER 54 " 43. AETHER IS UNIVERSAL 58 " 44. AETHER IS ATOMIC 59 " 45. AETHER IS GRAVITATIVE 64 " 46. AETHER POSSESSES DENSITY 71 " 47. AETHER POSSESSES ELAST...

ART. 51. ENERGY 83 " 52. CONSERVATION OF ENERGY 84 " 53. TRANSFORMATION OF ENERGY 86 " 54. POTENTIAL ENERGY 87 " 55. KINETIC ENERGY 89 " 56. ENERGY AND MOTION 91 " 57. CONSERVAT...

ART. 60. HEAT, A MODE OF MOTION 98 " 61. HEAT AND MATTER 100 " 62. RADIATION AND ABSORPTION 104 " 63. HEAT IS A REPULSIVE MOTION 107 " 64. RADIANT HEAT 109 " 65. DIRECTION OF A...

ART. 70. LIGHT, A MODE OF MOTION 122 " 71. TRANSVERSE VIBRATION OF LIGHT 130 " 72. REFLECTION AND REFRACTION 135 " 73. THE SOLAR SPECTRUM 139 " 74. DIRECTION OF A RAY OF LIGHT 1...

ART. 79. ELECTRICITY, A MODE OF MOTION 162 " 80. ELECTRIC FIELD 166 " 81. ELECTRIC INDUCTION 174 " 82. ELECTRIC ENERGY 179 " 83. ELECTRIC RADIATION 182 " 84. LAW OF INVERSE SQUA...

ART. 86. ELECTRO-MAGNETISM 192 " 87. THE EARTH A MAGNET 195 " 88. THE SUN AN ELECTRO-MAGNET 199 " 89. FARADAY'S LINES OF FORCE 203 " 90. TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM 206 " 91. SOLAR MA...

ART. 96. AETHER AND CENTRIFUGAL FORCE 232 " 97. AETHER AND CENTRIPETAL FORCE 236 " 98. AETHER AND NEWTON'S FIRST LAW OF MOTION 239 " 99. AETHER AND NEWTON'S SECOND LAW OF MOTION...

ART. 102. AETHER AND KEPLER'S FIRST LAW 256 " 103. AETHER AND KEPLER'S SECOND LAW 260 " 104. AETHER AND KEPLER'S THIRD LAW 263 " 105. ORBITAL MOTION OF PLANETS 266 " 106. ECCENT...

ART. 111. WHAT IS A COMET? 291 " 112. ORBITS OF COMETS 293 " 113. KINDS OF COMETS 296 " 114. PARTS OF A COMET 298 " 115. CENTRIFUGAL FORCE AND COMETS 300 " 116. FORMATION OF TAI...

ART. 117. STARRY WORLD 306 " 118. STARS AND KEPLER'S LAWS 309 " 119. AETHER AND NEBULAE 313 " 120. WHAT IS A NEBULA? 314 " 121. AETHER AND NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS 317 " 122. KINDS OF...

ART. 1. _Gravitation._--In the realm of Science, there exists a Force or Law that pervades and influences all Nature, and from the power of which, nothing, not even an atom, is...

ART. 18. _Gravitation Attraction._--The Law of Gravitation being a compound law, and not a simple law (Art. 8), it is necessary that the principles which govern universal attrac...

ART. 29. _What is Matter?_--The law of Universal Attraction states that "Every particle of matter attracts every other particle," etc., and the question at once arises as to wha...

ART. 42. _Aether is Matter._--The hypothesis of an Aether which fills all space was made in order that scientists might be able to account for certain phenomena of Light, which...

ART. 51. _Energy._--In the days of Newton, and for a long time afterwards, all energy went by the name of "Force." Thus Newton in his Laws of Motion refers to the action of forc...

ART. 60. _Heat is Motion._--On the phenomena of Heat, Newton in his eighteenth query in _Optics_ asks the questions: "Is not the heat of a warm room conveyed through the vacuum...

ART. 70. _Light, a Mode of Motion._--No subject has in the past received greater attention from philosophers and scientists than that involved in the question as to "What is Lig...

ART. 79. _Electricity, a Mode of Motion._--The question as to What is Electricity? is one of the greatest problems of modern times. In view of the electro-magnetic theory of lig...

ART. 86. _Electro-magnetism._--We have now to look at the relation of magnetism to electricity, or, in other words, to prove the identity that exists between magnetism and elect...

ART. 96. _Centrifugal Force._--Before proceeding to apply some of the principles and laws which govern the electro-magnetic aetherial medium to solar and stellar phenomena, it w...

ART. 102. _Aether and Kepler's First Law._--In Art. 26 we learned that according to the First Law of Kepler, each planet revolves round the sun in an elliptic orbit, with the su...

ART. 111. _Comets. What are Comets?_--In addition to the planets and asteroids which revolve around the sun, there are also other bodies termed Comets, which revolve round the s...

ART. 117. _The Starry World._--In addition to the planets and comets that are found in the heavens, there are other bodies, countless in their number, which we know as stars. Wh...

It now remains for us to show, in this last chapter, how, underlying all the physical structure of the Universe, there is one fundamental and primordial medium, in which all the...

possesses inertia. So that we may say that, though the evidence as to the identity of electrical and aetherial inertia is not fully complete, the balance of opinion lies in favo...