The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik]. Continuation |
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... known to have , about this time , engaged much of his attention ; and the little incident which interrupted him was instantly seized upon by his eager spirit , and , by that power which is in genius , assimilated with the substance of ...
... known to have , about this time , engaged much of his attention ; and the little incident which interrupted him was instantly seized upon by his eager spirit , and , by that power which is in genius , assimilated with the substance of ...
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... known rate of motion . This step of the discovery was marked by a very singular circumstance , and one strikingly illustrative of the truly philosophic character of this great man's mind . In the computations which he undertook for the ...
... known rate of motion . This step of the discovery was marked by a very singular circumstance , and one strikingly illustrative of the truly philosophic character of this great man's mind . In the computations which he undertook for the ...
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... known to affect at least every body in the immediate neighbourhood of the earth . But these things are only simple after they are explained . Slight and transparent as we may think the veil to have been which covered the truths alluded ...
... known to affect at least every body in the immediate neighbourhood of the earth . But these things are only simple after they are explained . Slight and transparent as we may think the veil to have been which covered the truths alluded ...
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... known to the ancients ; one of whose philo- sophers , HERO of Alexandria , had , about a century before the birth of Christ , constructed upon that principle the fountain , or jet d'eau , which still goes by his name . The common ...
... known to the ancients ; one of whose philo- sophers , HERO of Alexandria , had , about a century before the birth of Christ , constructed upon that principle the fountain , or jet d'eau , which still goes by his name . The common ...
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... known to have been indebted for the first hint of certain of his great optical discoveries to the child's amuse- ment of blowing bubbles out of soap ; and , as Dr. Pemberton has ingeniously observed , in his account of that great man's ...
... known to have been indebted for the first hint of certain of his great optical discoveries to the child's amuse- ment of blowing bubbles out of soap ; and , as Dr. Pemberton has ingeniously observed , in his account of that great man's ...
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