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... heat- rays . I therefore arranged a series of observations with the Abbé Veuillet , of Chamouni ; he was to operate in the valley , while I observed at the top . Our instruments were of the same kind ; in this way I hoped to determine ...
... heat- rays . I therefore arranged a series of observations with the Abbé Veuillet , of Chamouni ; he was to operate in the valley , while I observed at the top . Our instruments were of the same kind ; in this way I hoped to determine ...
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... heat . But what is heat , that it should work such changes in moral and intellectual nature ? Why are we unable to read " Mill's Logic " or study the " Kritik der reinen Vernunft " with any profit in a Turkish bath ? Heat , defined ...
... heat . But what is heat , that it should work such changes in moral and intellectual nature ? Why are we unable to read " Mill's Logic " or study the " Kritik der reinen Vernunft " with any profit in a Turkish bath ? Heat , defined ...
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... heat in ancient inorganic nature , and developed as the ages rolled ? Are other and grander powers still latent in nature , destined to blossom in another age ? Let us ques- tion fearlessly , but , having done so , let us avow frankly ...
... heat in ancient inorganic nature , and developed as the ages rolled ? Are other and grander powers still latent in nature , destined to blossom in another age ? Let us ques- tion fearlessly , but , having done so , let us avow frankly ...
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... heat ; their enemy is now withdrawn , and they lock themselves together in a crystalline embrace . Through a reach of merciless shingle , which covers the lower part of the glacier , we worked our way ; then over green pastures and ...
... heat ; their enemy is now withdrawn , and they lock themselves together in a crystalline embrace . Through a reach of merciless shingle , which covers the lower part of the glacier , we worked our way ; then over green pastures and ...
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... heat may be compared , in point of quantity , with that radi- ated from a furnace ; and the heat encountered by the mountaineer on Alpine snows is certainly less intense than that endured by workmen in many of our technical operations ...
... heat may be compared , in point of quantity , with that radi- ated from a furnace ; and the heat encountered by the mountaineer on Alpine snows is certainly less intense than that endured by workmen in many of our technical operations ...
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