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  • adjective Alternative spelling of ethereal.

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Examples

  • Aether be frictionless, then the waves of Aether known as aetherial heat waves ought to pass between the atoms as water passes through a sieve, or wind passes through a forest.

    Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper

  • Further, if all electro-magnetic phenomena are due to the same aetherial medium which gives rise by its wave motions to light, heat and electricity, then we shall have discovered a medium which throughout the universe can by its wave motions transmit and propagate both repulsions and attractions, that is, the aetherial medium which is to be the physical cause of

    Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper

  • Wherever, therefore, we have heat of any kind, there we have a repulsive motion, such motion being proportionate to the heat radiated, that is, the aetherial waves propagated by the body.

    Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper

  • So that not only is the sun the centre of an attractive Force, the Centripetal force, or the attractive Force of Gravity, which proceeds in straight lines through space, decreasing in intensity inversely as the square of the distance, but at the same time it is also the centre of a motion, that is, the aetherial wave motion of light, which takes exactly the same path as Gravitation Attraction, and which is subject to exactly the same laws.

    Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper

  • [2522] But Aristotle, in a book addressed to Alexander of Macedon, giving a compendious explanation of his own philosophy, clearly and manifestly overthrows the opinion of Plato, saying that God does not exist in a fiery substance: but inventing, as a fifth substance, some kind of aetherial and unchangeable body, says that God exists in it.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • For if all phenomena of the universe, whether it be heat, light, electricity, be due to different modes of motion, then Gravitation should be explained from the physical standpoint by some kind of aetherial motion also.

    Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper

  • It is simple, because it puts in the place of unknown chemical waves, a certain kind of aetherial waves with whose action we are definitely familiar, and whose origin and effect can be satisfactorily accounted for, as proved by Hertz.

    Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper

  • Clustering of Gravitational Matter in any part of the Universe, "viz. that all matter has an aetherial, that is, an electrical basis, and that it is by the condensation of this electricity, and combinations of the condensational particles, that all the various elements are formed which compose the infinite variety of forms that constitute the entire

    Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper

  • When he looked “beyond the horrison that binds human eyes… at the final consummation of all human things,” and saw “those intelligent beings which inhabit the aetherial mansions, reviewing the political decisions and revolutions which in the progress of time will happen in America” and the “consequent happiness or misery of mankind,” he understood how much would depend “on what we now decide.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • When he looked “beyond the horrison that binds human eyes… at the final consummation of all human things,” and saw “those intelligent beings which inhabit the aetherial mansions, reviewing the political decisions and revolutions which in the progress of time will happen in America” and the “consequent happiness or misery of mankind,” he understood how much would depend “on what we now decide.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

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