Weight and Mass

Abstract

TILL some quite new facts are discovered, such as shall force us to reconsider our convictions (which have not been lightly formed), I do not think it profitable to accept a quasi-metaphysical challenge from my friend Prof. Greenhill. He has at heart, as strongly as I have, the cause of definiteness and accuracy:—and if he, as is natural for one in his position, feels inclined to sympathise with the “vernacular” of Engineers rather than object to it as I do, there is nothing for it but to agree to differ. My remarks on this aspect of the subject were of the most cursory and general character; and I went so far as to say that, as the book in question was written by a practical man for practical men, “perhaps we ought not to complain.”