10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CORPUSCULARITY»
Discover the use of
corpuscularity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
corpuscularity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Action and Reaction: Proceedings of a Symposium to ...
But by the middle of the eighteenth century, Schofield notes, "dynamic
corpuscularity appeared to be foundering on the same rock that sank kinematic
corpuscularity — the inability to devise an independent measure of critical
parameters.
Paul Harold Theerman, Adele F. Seeff, 1993
2
Compendium of Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, ...
Corpuscularity. or. Particle. Characteristics. We find particle theories of light, in
the broadest sense of the word, as far back as the atomists of Ancient Greece, but
Sir Isaac Newton (1643–1727) first conceived a more developed model of this ...
Daniel Greenberger, Klaus Hentschel, Friedel Weinert, 2009
3
Thinking Matter: Materialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain
1 He is here characterizing one of the Hutchinsonians, Samuel Pike, one of a
small group who actively opposed the second, Newtonian concept, which
Schofield describes as 'dynamic corpuscularity' or 'mechanism'. Schofield 's
materialists ...
4
The Cambridge Companion to Newton
The theory of colored bodies was not only founded on the corpuscularity of matter
; it was a theory of matter attributing specific properties and arrangements to the
corpuscles that cause the transparency or opacity and colors of bodies.
I. Bernard Cohen, George E. Smith, 2002
5
After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend: Recent Issues in Theories ...
But his analyses had not established (a), the corpuscularity of electrons. He could
not preclude the possibility that cathode rays and the matter of electrons are a
continuous form of matter with a uniform mass and charge distribution so that any
...
Robert Nola, H. Sankey, 2001
6
Optics After Newton: Theories of Light in Britain and ...
1 1 I. 4 Forces In his detailed analysis of eighteenth-century British natural
philosophy Schofield (1970) contrasts two types of matter theory; firstly, dynamic
corpuscularity by which the basic particles of matter interact by means of forces of
...
7
The Rosminian Doctrine of the Soul: A Critical Inquiry Into ...
426 Mechanism, which developed from the dynamic corpuscularity of non-
contact action at a distance found in the original editions of Principia and Optics,
was based on the belief that causation of phenomena resided in the forces
imbedded ...
8
Fits, Passions, and Paroxysms: Physics, Method, and ...
unproved), Newton has implicitly introduced corpuscularity with his assumption
that bodies have parts and pores. This universal assumption of the mechanical
philosophy is absolutely essential for the establishment of his theory. Although ...
9
Romantic Presences in the Twentieth Century
his entire adult life he'd seen in twilight a corpuscularity' (p. 11). Franzen's
argument with the sciences of mind is a productive one –indeed, I have argued
elsewhere that it is partly this argument that generatesthe form and muchof the
content ...
Dr Andrew Radford, Dr Mark Sandy, 2013
10
David Hartley on Human Nature
Hales's own understanding of what he was doing — the theoretical basis of his
experiments — drew upon a theory of dynamic corpuscularity that he learned
from Newton, the brothers John and James Keill, and John Freind (Allan and ...
