Ideas of phenomena ancient and modern, metaphysical and mechanical--Imponderables--Forces, invented and discarded--Explanations--Energy, its factors, Kinetic and Potential--Motions, kinds and transformations of--Mechanical, molecular, and atomic--Invention of Ethers, Faraday's conceptions p. 7 Properties of Matter and Ether compared--Discontinuity _versus_ Continuity--Size of atoms--Astronomical distances--Number of atoms in the universe--Ether unlimited--Kinds of Matter, permanent qualities of--Atomic structure; vortex-rings, their properties--Ether structureless--Matter gravitative, Ether not--Friction in Matter, Ether frictionless--Chemical properties--Energy in Matter and in Ether--Matt…
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