The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].Wells and Lilly, 1830 - Всего страниц: 3 |
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... immediately the truth of his conjecture by careful and repeated experiment ; and the result was the complete discovery of the principle of the most perfect measure of time which we yet possess . How striking a lesson is this for us when ...
... immediately the truth of his conjecture by careful and repeated experiment ; and the result was the complete discovery of the principle of the most perfect measure of time which we yet possess . How striking a lesson is this for us when ...
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... immediately to endeavour to account for the unexpected phenomenon ; and , after examining the case , came to the conclusion , that nature cer- tainly abhorred a vacuum , but for the first two - and thirty feet only ! It was his pupil ...
... immediately to endeavour to account for the unexpected phenomenon ; and , after examining the case , came to the conclusion , that nature cer- tainly abhorred a vacuum , but for the first two - and thirty feet only ! It was his pupil ...
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... immediately conceived the idea that it would be practicable to find a way of covering a plate of copper in the same manner with little holes , which , being inked and laid upon paper , would un- doubtedly produce a black impression ...
... immediately conceived the idea that it would be practicable to find a way of covering a plate of copper in the same manner with little holes , which , being inked and laid upon paper , would un- doubtedly produce a black impression ...
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... immediately perceiving that , as the water was equal to the bulk of his body , this would furnish him with the means of detecting the adulteration , by trying how much water a certain weight 20 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
... immediately perceiving that , as the water was equal to the bulk of his body , this would furnish him with the means of detecting the adulteration , by trying how much water a certain weight 20 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
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... immediately set himself to work to find out by what means the thing must have been effected ; and in the course of a few hours satisfied himself that , by a certain ar- rangement of spherical glasses , he could repeat the new miracle ...
... immediately set himself to work to find out by what means the thing must have been effected ; and in the course of a few hours satisfied himself that , by a certain ar- rangement of spherical glasses , he could repeat the new miracle ...
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