Scientific Use of the Imagination and Other EssaysLongmans, Green and Company, 1872 - 63 páginas |
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... action of the investigator is periodic . He grapples with a subject of enquiry , wrestles with it , overcomes it , exhausts , it may be , both himself and it for the time being . He breathes a space , and then renews the struggle in ...
... action of the investigator is periodic . He grapples with a subject of enquiry , wrestles with it , overcomes it , exhausts , it may be , both himself and it for the time being . He breathes a space , and then renews the struggle in ...
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... action . For I take it to be well worth the while of the scientific teacher to take some pains , and even great pains , to make those whom he addresses copartners of his thoughts . To clear his own mind in the first place from all haze ...
... action . For I take it to be well worth the while of the scientific teacher to take some pains , and even great pains , to make those whom he addresses copartners of his thoughts . To clear his own mind in the first place from all haze ...
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... action in weak vessels and are unduly impressed by its disasters . But they might with equal justice point to exploded boilers as an argu- ment against the use of steam . Nourished by knowledge patiently won ; bounded and conditioned by ...
... action in weak vessels and are unduly impressed by its disasters . But they might with equal justice point to exploded boilers as an argu- ment against the use of steam . Nourished by knowledge patiently won ; bounded and conditioned by ...
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... small and sudden change of density occurring in passing from shell to shell . Light would be reflected at the limiting surfaces of all these shells , and their action would be practically the same 14 Scientific Use of the Imagination .
... small and sudden change of density occurring in passing from shell to shell . Light would be reflected at the limiting surfaces of all these shells , and their action would be practically the same 14 Scientific Use of the Imagination .
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... action of clouds , the solar light is not reflected by the sky in the proportions which pro- duce white . The sky is blue , which indicates a deficiency on the part of the larger waves . In accounting for the colour of the sky , the ...
... action of clouds , the solar light is not reflected by the sky in the proportions which pro- duce white . The sky is blue , which indicates a deficiency on the part of the larger waves . In accounting for the colour of the sky , the ...
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