Abstract
IT is the proper function of Science to discover, among the ever-changing phenomena of the world, the permanent relations which are the conditions of reasonable thought. When we understand these relations well enough to express them in words we call them “Laws of Nature.” When they rise to a higher stage of development and have become invariable habits of thought, we call them “Things.”
An Elementary Treatise on Energy and its Laws.
By Balfour Stewart, Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Owens College, Manchester. (Henry S. King & Co., 1873.)
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An Elementary Treatise on Energy and its Laws . Nature 9, 198–200 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009198a0
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