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... once the points he was so anxious to enforce , and becoming eager to hear how the mode of analysis they now trusted in , had been applied by physicists to astronomical problems . This experience , and the fact that day after day new ...
... once the points he was so anxious to enforce , and becoming eager to hear how the mode of analysis they now trusted in , had been applied by physicists to astronomical problems . This experience , and the fact that day after day new ...
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... once the full significance and value of the new method . And this is , indeed , a true state- ment of the case . The great range of the spectroscope seems to make a comparison with any instances of the analysis of audible sounds ...
... once the full significance and value of the new method . And this is , indeed , a true state- ment of the case . The great range of the spectroscope seems to make a comparison with any instances of the analysis of audible sounds ...
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... once explains the mystery . We have seen that the continuous spectrum corre- sponds to the continuous gamut of sounds , the juxta- position of colours in the spectrum corresponding to the succession of notes in the gamut . And the ...
... once explains the mystery . We have seen that the continuous spectrum corre- sponds to the continuous gamut of sounds , the juxta- position of colours in the spectrum corresponding to the succession of notes in the gamut . And the ...
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... once said , jestingly , that if there be inhabit- ants on the moon , we might interchange ideas with them respecting mathematical problems , by means of trees planted in geometrical figures . For instance , ' he said , ' we might ...
... once said , jestingly , that if there be inhabit- ants on the moon , we might interchange ideas with them respecting mathematical problems , by means of trees planted in geometrical figures . For instance , ' he said , ' we might ...
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... once suggest themselves as ap- plicable to the planet Mars . If this orb be indeed uninhabited , then it exhibits to us physical relations fulfilling no purpose that human reason can conceive ; lamps lighting nothing ; waters quenching ...
... once suggest themselves as ap- plicable to the planet Mars . If this orb be indeed uninhabited , then it exhibits to us physical relations fulfilling no purpose that human reason can conceive ; lamps lighting nothing ; waters quenching ...
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