Materialism / by J.M. Winn.

  • Winn, James M. (James Michell), 1808-1900.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Materialism / by J.M. Winn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and Dalton as if they had embraced the same extravagant theory, whereas Newton’s grand mathematical law simply implied “ that every particle of matter is attracted by, or gravitates to, every other particle of matter, with a force inversely proportionate to the square of the distance ” ; and Dalton’s atomic theory was also of a totally different character, and had reference to the chemical law of multiple proportions. But even this ingenious hypothesis, which has been so valuable to the science of chemistry, has nevertheless, its discrepancies; for, as the late Professor Fownes remarks*: “ It is indispens- able to draw the* broadest possible line of dis- tinction between this, which is at the best but a graceful, ingenious, and, in its place, useful hypothesis, and those great general laws of chemical action which are the pure and un- mixed result of inductive research” * “ A Manual of Chemistry.” Fifth edition. Revised by H. Bence Jones and A. W. Hofman.