The Literary And Scientific Repository, And Critical Review 4
The Literary And Scientific Repository, And Critical Review 4
Charles K Charles Kitchell Gardner
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6. The actual division of matter can be carried to an almost incredible extent, as may be shown : by the great ductility of metals; by the distance at which odours affect the olfactory nerves; by the minuteness of the animalculae discovered through the aid of the microscope, each of which is an organized being ; by the colours of chemical solutions ; by the smallness of the particles of light Still it may reasonably be doubted whether matter be infinitely di- visible ; the more probable supposi...tion is, that it may finally be resolved into particles perfectly bard and incapable of further division. These particles are called atoms ; the theory that holds their ex- istence the atomic theory * and it seems to be supported by the strong and conclusive evidence of numerous well ascertained HO Natural Philosophy. facte. This evidence is, however, rather the object of chemi- cal than of physical investigation. 7. Bodies, being of that class of geometric figures called solids, are inclosed by one or more boundaries.
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