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“AS negation is the expression of energy and position is lie expression of force, the elements of undulation, which is the dynamic aspect of the molar enengy light, are expansion in the atomic field and ionisation in the molecular field; and the elements of spiralisation, which is the dynamic aspect of molar force (gravitation), are contraction in the atomic field and convergence in the molecular field” (p. 20). This extract shows that Mr. Wake has an extensive vocabulary, and a fund of unconscious humour. His pamphlet has no scientific value, but is amusing in its way as an attempt to classify all human knowledge on principles ostensibly scientific and logical, but really vague and æsthetic. Even from this point of view the coloured diagrams vii. and xii. are unsatisfactory.
Vortex Philosophy: or the Geometry of Science Diagrammatically Illustrated.
By C. S. Wake. Pp. 36. (Chicago: Published by the Author, 1907.)
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Vortex Philosophy: or the Geometry of Science Diagrammatically Illustrated . Nature 76, 413 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076413b0
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