Scientific Use of the Imagination and Other EssaysLongmans, Green and Company, 1872 - 63 páginas |
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... particles of matter between his compass points , and to apply to them a scale of millimetres , he is power- fully aided by his imagination . And in much that has been recently said about protoplasm and life , we have the outgoings of ...
... particles of matter between his compass points , and to apply to them a scale of millimetres , he is power- fully aided by his imagination . And in much that has been recently said about protoplasm and life , we have the outgoings of ...
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... particle pushed against its neighbour delivers up its motion with extreme rapidity , and the pulse is propagated as a thrill . The incompres- sibility of water , as illustrated by the famous Florentine experiment , is a measure of its ...
... particle pushed against its neighbour delivers up its motion with extreme rapidity , and the pulse is propagated as a thrill . The incompres- sibility of water , as illustrated by the famous Florentine experiment , is a measure of its ...
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... . You cannot crown the edifice by this abstraction . The scientific imagi- nation , which is here authoritative , demands as the origin and cause of a series of ether waves a particle Scientific Use of the Imagination . 11.
... . You cannot crown the edifice by this abstraction . The scientific imagi- nation , which is here authoritative , demands as the origin and cause of a series of ether waves a particle Scientific Use of the Imagination . 11.
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... particle we name an atom or a molecule . I think the seeking intellect when focussed so as to give definition without ... particles of the wave . In water- waves it is the height of the crest above the trough , while the length of the ...
... particle we name an atom or a molecule . I think the seeking intellect when focussed so as to give definition without ... particles of the wave . In water- waves it is the height of the crest above the trough , while the length of the ...
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... particles are so large in comparison with the size of the waves of ether as to reflect them all indifferently . A broad cliff reflects an Atlantic roller as easily as a ripple produced by a sea- bird's wing ; and in the presence of ...
... particles are so large in comparison with the size of the waves of ether as to reflect them all indifferently . A broad cliff reflects an Atlantic roller as easily as a ripple produced by a sea- bird's wing ; and in the presence of ...
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