The Poetry of Science; or, Studies of the Physical Phenomena of Nature

CHAPTER I.

GENERAL CONDITIONS OF MATTER.

Its varied Characters, and constant change of external Form--The Grain of Dust, its Properties and Powers--Combinations in inorganic Masses and in organized Creations--Our knowledge of Matter--Theory of Ultimate Atoms--The Physical Forces acting on the Composition of Masses--The certainty of the exercise of subtile principles, which are...