Scientific Use of the Imagination and Other EssaysLongmans, Green and Company, 1872 - 63 páginas |
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... regard Imagination as a faculty to be avoided rather than employed . They observe its 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 ...
... regard Imagination as a faculty to be avoided rather than employed . They observe its 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 ...
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... regards energy of the larger over the smaller waves must always be im- mense . Were the case otherwise , the ... regard it as made up of a series of thin concentric layers , or shells of air , each shell being of the same density ...
... regards energy of the larger over the smaller waves must always be im- mense . Were the case otherwise , the ... regard it as made up of a series of thin concentric layers , or shells of air , each shell being of the same density ...
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... regard the firmament as an illuminated turbid medium with the darkness of space behind it . He describes glasses show- ing a bright yellow by transmitted , and a beautiful blue by reflected light . Professor Stokes , who was probably ...
... regard the firmament as an illuminated turbid medium with the darkness of space behind it . He describes glasses show- ing a bright yellow by transmitted , and a beautiful blue by reflected light . Professor Stokes , who was probably ...
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... regard as monstrous a notion I have sometimes entertained concerning the quantity of matter in our sky . Suppose a shell to surround the carth at a height above the surface which would place it beyond the grosser matter that hangs in ...
... regard as monstrous a notion I have sometimes entertained concerning the quantity of matter in our sky . Suppose a shell to surround the carth at a height above the surface which would place it beyond the grosser matter that hangs in ...
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... regard- ing the sands upon the seashore . " The varying judgments of men on these and other questions may perhaps be , to some extent , accounted for by that doctrine of Relativity which plays so important a part in philosophy . This ...
... regard- ing the sands upon the seashore . " The varying judgments of men on these and other questions may perhaps be , to some extent , accounted for by that doctrine of Relativity which plays so important a part in philosophy . This ...
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