 | 1884 - 308 pages
...satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model, I can understand it. As long as I cannot make a mechanical...all the. way through, I cannot understand; and that in why I cannot get* the electro-magnetic theory. I firmly believe in an electro-magnetic theory of... | |
 | James Ward - 1899 - 332 pages
...never satisfy myself till I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model I can understand it. As long as I cannot make a mechanical...that is why I cannot get the electro-magnetic theory of light."1 Now I should like respectfully to ask whether 1 Nature, vol. xxxl, p. 603. this is not... | |
 | James Ward - 1899 - 332 pages
...satisfy myself till I can make a mechanical model ! of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model I can i understand it. As long as I cannot make a mechanical...; is why I cannot get the electro-magnetic theory of light." 1 Now I should like respectfully to ask whether 1 Nature, vol. *xxi, p. 603. this is not... | |
 | James Ward - 1899 - 332 pages
...never satisfy myself till I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model I can understand it. As long as I cannot make a mechanical model all the way throuah, I cannot understand, and that is why I cannot get the electro-magnetic theory of light."1... | |
 | Aristotelian Society (Great Britain) - 1906 - 414 pages
...is impossible to assign a definite meaning,* while Lord Kelvin, speaking on the same subject said, " As long as I cannot make a mechanical model all the...that is why I cannot get the electro-magnetic theory of light, "t An almost better illustration is afforded by Mr. McDougall, who not only conceives his... | |
 | Thomas Percy Nunn - 1907 - 162 pages
...impossible to assign a definite meaning,* " while Lord Kelvin, speaking on the same subject said, " As long as I cannot make a mechanical model all the...that is why I cannot get the electro-magnetic theory of light."f An almost better illustration is afforded by Dr. McDougall, who not only conceives his... | |
 | Richard Cockburn Maclaurin - 1908 - 356 pages
...myself," he says, " until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model I can understand it. As long as I cannot make a mechanical model all the way through I cannot understand." This is one of the many interesting personal touches in the famous Baltimore Lectures, and for these... | |
 | 1908 - 1016 pages
...satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model, I can understand it. As long as I cannot make a mechanical model all the way through I cannot understand it." This use of models is indeed to be found in the work of every follower of Faraday. Maxwell designed... | |
 | Institution of Electrical Engineers - 1908 - 958 pages
...satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model, I can understand it. As long as I cannot make a mechanical model all the way through I cannot understand it." This use of models is indeed to be found in the work of every follower of Faraday. Maxwell designed... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1910 - 766 pages
...never satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model I can understand it. As long as I cannot make a mechanical...I cannot understand ; and that is why I cannot get [this is probably the reporter's Americanism for the word "accept"] the electromagnetic theory. I firmly... | |
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I never satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model I can understand it. As long as I cannot make a mechanical model all the way through, I cannot understand, and that is why I cannot get the electromagnetic... 
