The correlation of physical forces: being the substance of a course of lectures delivered in the London Institution, in the year 1843 / by W.R. Grove.

  • Grove, W. R. (William Robert), 1811-1896.
Date:
1846
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Credit: The correlation of physical forces: being the substance of a course of lectures delivered in the London Institution, in the year 1843 / by W.R. Grove. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. THE subjects of the Course of Lectures embraced by the title of this sketch are much better adapted to oral than to written explanation; they demand at every step experi- mental illustration, and suggest questions which the Lecturer has an opportunity of answering, but which the writer cannot anticipate. Notwithstanding the manifold difficulties which surround the- task, I am anxious to comply as far as in me lies with the wishes of the Proprietors of The London Institution, and to furnish them with a short resume of some of those views of Physical Science which I have, in their Theatre, endeavoured to inculcate. Although these views have not been lost sight of in any of my Courses of Lectures, yet they were more prominently brought forward in the Course delivered in 1843, under the same title as heads this Essay; and it is a short exposition of the principles advanced in this Course, not a report of the Lectures themselves, which I am here attempting to set forth. As far as I am able, I shall give expression in this abstract to such views only as I offered at the time of the Lectures.