Since Tyndall’s Heat as a Mode of Motion, Dolbear complains, no one has tried to explain plainly what mechanical changes happen when one form of energy turns into another. He sets out to do so, rejecting force as a metaphysical stop-gap and describing the properties of matter and ether, the discontinuity of matter and the motions behind every physical phenomenon.
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