Understanding (1690) was the corpuscular physics of. From Wordnik.com. [ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS] Reference
You know the wave and corpuscular theories of light?. From Wordnik.com. [The Seed of the Toc-Toc Birds] Reference
Does he accept or defend the corpuscular hypothesis?. From Wordnik.com. [Locke's Philosophy of Science] Reference
Still using this corpuscular model, Descartes states in his. From Wordnik.com. [OPTICS AND VISION] Reference
MARCIANO: The corpuscular rays, that's a meteorological thing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2005] Reference
What corpuscular system of physics, what atoms, determine their nature?. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
S. O'BRIEN: Kimberly, are you seeing any corpuscular rays where you are?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2005] Reference
Democritus and Epicurus, whose corpuscular philosophy has combated these dogmas. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Plenist and atomist versions of the corpuscular hypothesis may be distinguished. From Wordnik.com. [Locke's Philosophy of Science] Reference
The corpuscular theory, which the famous Newton advocated, is long since abandoned. From Wordnik.com. [Quiet Talks on Power] Reference
Since 2 is irrational no discrete (corpuscular) system can accurately represent both. From Wordnik.com. [Sticky Wants to Grab] Reference
He in - herited from his time a corpuscular Matter scattered to infinity in an infinite space. From Wordnik.com. [COSMIC IMAGES] Reference
I refer to the effect of an atomic and gravitative Aether upon Newton's corpuscular theory of light. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
The second salient feature is the dominant scientific theory of his day, the corpuscular hypothesis. From Wordnik.com. [Locke's Philosophy of Science] Reference
Red blood cells with a mean corpuscular volume (MCV) greater than 95 can signal a methylation problem. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Hyman, MD: Nutrition Tips: Folic Acid: Killer or Cure-All?] Reference
But distinctly enough, we are told of one red rain that it was of corpuscular composition -- red snow, rather. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
It is true that Newton tried to reduce light to the motion of material points in his corpuscular theory of light. From Wordnik.com. [Out Of My Later Years]
Section 3 addresses the question provoked by Locke's apparently conflicting treatments of the corpuscular hypothesis. From Wordnik.com. [Locke's Philosophy of Science] Reference
But there is a significant gulf between the atomism of the former group and the corpuscular philosophies of the latter. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Their corpuscular-drive engines merely enabled them to accelerate within an extremely short time to the speed of light. From Wordnik.com. [Menace of the Mutant Master]
According to Newton's corpuscular theory, each luminous particle travels in a straight line through a homogeneous medium. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
This section examines the phenomena that Locke seems to consider too obscure for the corpuscular hypothesis to illuminate. From Wordnik.com. [Locke's Philosophy of Science] Reference
When we apply the corpuscular theory to the reflection of light we find that it satisfactorily accounts for the phenomenon. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
In this regard, he likened Darwin's gemmule theory to Newton's corpuscular theory of light and the molecular theory of matter. From Wordnik.com. [Chauncey Wright] Reference
We must think in dynamic terms, because corpuscular interpretations of nature do not work, not even for the ether (1: 486. 5-35). From Wordnik.com. [Kant's Philosophical Development] Reference
Newton's adherence to a corpuscular doctrine permitted him to infer the heterogeneity of white light from this experiment is inconclusive. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Although he did not propound a corpuscular theory of his own, we find a few remarks that could have been the starting point for such a theory. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
When you ask somebody what a corpuscular ray is and they start talking about Jacob's ladder, they don't know what they're talking about, right?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2005] Reference
Since a scholarly debate has arisen about the status of the corpuscular hypothesis for Locke, Section 3 reviews some main positions in that debate. From Wordnik.com. [Locke's Philosophy of Science] Reference
Newton's speculations about such forces are driven by an absence of any resolution to the problem about cohesion within the corpuscular theory itself. From Wordnik.com. [Locke's Philosophy of Science] Reference
This tendency to speak as though the corpuscular hypothesis is true, either in whole or in part, has been termed Locke's “dogmatic” side (Downing 2007). From Wordnik.com. [Locke's Philosophy of Science] Reference
Quantum theory united two conceptions that had formerly been thought to be mutually incompati - ble — the wave theory and the corpuscular theory of energy. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
McCann in Chappell 1998, p. The four problematic phenomena winnow away the components of the corpuscular hypothesis, as defined at the outset of this article. From Wordnik.com. [Locke's Philosophy of Science] Reference
McCann, for example, reads Locke as defending the atomist version of the corpuscular philosophy over its Cartesian competitor by providing an epistemology for it. From Wordnik.com. [Locke's Philosophy of Science] Reference
As the undulatory theory was able to give a satisfactory explanation of the phenomenon, the corpuscular theory was rejected, and the undulatory theory was accepted. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
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