Sound: A Course of Eight Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great BritainLongmans, Green,, 1867 - 335 páginas |
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... turn it to good account ; who blended in his own beautiful character the wisdom of mature years with the spring - like freshness of a boy . When together indeed , This union of life , love , we were men and boys by turns . and wisdom ...
... turn it to good account ; who blended in his own beautiful character the wisdom of mature years with the spring - like freshness of a boy . When together indeed , This union of life , love , we were men and boys by turns . and wisdom ...
Página viii
... turn it to good account; who blended in his own beautiful character the wisdom of mature years with the spring-like freshness of a boy. When together indeed, we were men and boys by turns. This union of life, love, and wisdom rendered ...
... turn it to good account; who blended in his own beautiful character the wisdom of mature years with the spring-like freshness of a boy. When together indeed, we were men and boys by turns. This union of life, love, and wisdom rendered ...
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... turn to rest . Thus each shell of air , if I may use the term , surrounding the balloon , took up the motion of the shell next preceding , and transmitted it to the next succeeding shell , the motion being thus propagated as a pulse or ...
... turn to rest . Thus each shell of air , if I may use the term , surrounding the balloon , took up the motion of the shell next preceding , and transmitted it to the next succeeding shell , the motion being thus propagated as a pulse or ...
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... are the two con- stituents of a wave of sound . * Let us turn once more to our row of boys , for we have * A sonorous wave will be more strictly defined in Lecture II . not yet extracted from them all that they can teach.
... are the two con- stituents of a wave of sound . * Let us turn once more to our row of boys , for we have * A sonorous wave will be more strictly defined in Lecture II . not yet extracted from them all that they can teach.
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... turn the mirror on its stand , to make the image fall upon any one of the row of persons who occupy the front seat in the gallery . Removing the candle , and putting the watch , w , fig . 6 , in its place , the person on whom the image ...
... turn the mirror on its stand , to make the image fall upon any one of the row of persons who occupy the front seat in the gallery . Removing the candle , and putting the watch , w , fig . 6 , in its place , the person on whom the image ...
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