Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action….

I think the facts leave no doubt that the very mightiest among the chemical forces are of electric origin. The atoms cling to their electric charges,….

As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity is r….

Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists..

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought..

The total quantity of all the forces capable of work in the whole universe remains eternal and unchanged throughout all their changes. All change in ….

I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and i….

During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its detai….