Scientific Use of the Imagination and Other EssaysLongmans, Green and Company, 1872 - 63 páginas |
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... mechanical shocks is experienced by a body plunged in the water as the wavelets reach it in succession . But a finer motion is at the same time set up and pro- pagated . If the head and ears be immersed in the water , as in an ...
... mechanical shocks is experienced by a body plunged in the water as the wavelets reach it in succession . But a finer motion is at the same time set up and pro- pagated . If the head and ears be immersed in the water , as in an ...
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... mechanical laws . Let us carry our results from the world of theory into the world of sense , and see whether our deductions do not issue in the very phenomena of light which ordinary knowledge and skilled experiment reveal . If in all ...
... mechanical laws . Let us carry our results from the world of theory into the world of sense , and see whether our deductions do not issue in the very phenomena of light which ordinary knowledge and skilled experiment reveal . If in all ...
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... mechanical laws . What then do you expect to find as the source of a series of ether waves ? Ask your imagination if it will accept a vibrating multiple proportion - a numerical ratio in a state of oscillation ? I do not think it will ...
... mechanical laws . What then do you expect to find as the source of a series of ether waves ? Ask your imagination if it will accept a vibrating multiple proportion - a numerical ratio in a state of oscillation ? I do not think it will ...
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... mechanical sus- pension of exceedingly small foreign particles . 6 Here , as before , we encounter our sceptical as if ' It is one of the parasites of science , ever at hand , and ready to plant itself and sprout , if it can , on the ...
... mechanical sus- pension of exceedingly small foreign particles . 6 Here , as before , we encounter our sceptical as if ' It is one of the parasites of science , ever at hand , and ready to plant itself and sprout , if it can , on the ...
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... mechanical laws . But the mechanical data once guessed or given , mathematics become all - powerful as an instrument of deduction . The command of geo- metry over the relations of space , the far - reaching power which organised ...
... mechanical laws . But the mechanical data once guessed or given , mathematics become all - powerful as an instrument of deduction . The command of geo- metry over the relations of space , the far - reaching power which organised ...
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