The concepts and theories of modern physics / By J.B. Stallo.

  • John Stallo
Date:
1900
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Credit: The concepts and theories of modern physics / By J.B. Stallo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE CONCEPTS AND THEORIES OF :M O D E Pv N PHYSICS. CHAPTER L INTRODUCTORY. Modern physical science aims at a mechanical inter- pretation of all the phenomena of the universe. It seeks to explain these phenomena by reducing them to the elements of mass and motion and exhibiting their diversities and changes as mere differences and varia- tions in the distribution and aggregation of ultimate and invariable bodies or particles in space. Naturally the supremacy of mechanics became conspicuous first in the domains of those sciences which deal with the visible motions of palpable masses—in astronomy and molar physics; but its recognition is now all but uni- versal in all the physical sciences, including, not only molecular physics and chemistry, but also such depart- ments of scientific inquiry as are conversant about the phenomena of organic life. It is said that the theoretical no less than the prac- tical progress of the natural sciences, during the last