 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...  Circulars - Seite 1071884Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Ward - 1899 - 332 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Institution of Electrical Engineers - 1908 - 958 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Richard Cockburn Maclaurin - 1908 - 356 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1911 - 368 Seiten
...or do we not understand a particular subject in physics ? " is " Can we make a mechanical model of it ? " As long as I cannot make a mechanical model, all the way through, I cannot understand it.' As Silvanus Thompson says : — 'The use of models has become characteristic of the tone and temper... | |
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