Nature, Volume 27Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1883 - Electronic journals |
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... interesting , and the method adopted for finding the most probable curve by the method of least squares , is laborious and conscientious . method of weighting the observations seems , it is true , rather artificial , especially as the ...
... interesting , and the method adopted for finding the most probable curve by the method of least squares , is laborious and conscientious . method of weighting the observations seems , it is true , rather artificial , especially as the ...
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... interesting reading to the public at large . ” — Pall Mall Gazette " The subjects already treated are wonderfully various . T soldier will find information upon almost everything - how make a plum pudding or a bridge , to mend a railway ...
... interesting reading to the public at large . ” — Pall Mall Gazette " The subjects already treated are wonderfully various . T soldier will find information upon almost everything - how make a plum pudding or a bridge , to mend a railway ...
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... interesting and important instalment of evidence and argument has just been published in the orm of a " Report on the Petrology of St. Paul's Rocks , " by M. Renard of Brussels , whose name is itself a uarantee for the accuracy and ...
... interesting and important instalment of evidence and argument has just been published in the orm of a " Report on the Petrology of St. Paul's Rocks , " by M. Renard of Brussels , whose name is itself a uarantee for the accuracy and ...
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... interesting , and we earnestly com- mend them to the young men of our time who wish not to seem , but to be indeed , men of science . With his appointment to the chair in the Marischal College , Aberdeen , begins his career as a ...
... interesting , and we earnestly com- mend them to the young men of our time who wish not to seem , but to be indeed , men of science . With his appointment to the chair in the Marischal College , Aberdeen , begins his career as a ...
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... interesting peep at nautical matters among the Arabians of those times . The author deals separately with the ships of the Mediterranean , of the Indian Ocean , and Red Sea , and of the Nile and other rivers . Inter alia , he describes ...
... interesting peep at nautical matters among the Arabians of those times . The author deals separately with the ships of the Mediterranean , of the Indian Ocean , and Red Sea , and of the Nile and other rivers . Inter alia , he describes ...
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Page 247 - It will be in the recollection of some of our readers that the object of the Association was extended at the last annual meeting, so as to include the effecting of improvements in the teaching of elementary mathematics and mathematical physics. This extension has met with great approval, and the novelty of this year's meeting will be the reading of three papers : ( I ) " The Teaching of Elementary Mechanics," by WH Besant, FRS (2) " The Basis of Statics,
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Page 224 - Our readers possibly may smile at our ignorance ; but we care not, so that the sincerity and truth of our statement be not suspected. The Tree of the Ten Thousand Images seemed to us of great age. Its trunk, which three men could scarcely embrace with outstretched arms, is not more than eight feet high; the branches, instead of shooting up, spread out in the shape of a plume of feathers, and are extremely bushy; few of them are dead. The leaves are always green, and the wood, which is of a reddish...
Page 252 - Many of you will begin to think that you are listening to the play of Hamlet with the part of the Prince of Denmark omitted, for so far I have said nothing whatever about technical education.