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... through an age in which stone arrow - points were used , and eventually passed into an iron age , the variation in development depending on the absence or presence of NO . 2288 , VOL . 92 ] 14 [ SEPTEMBER 4 , 1913 NATURE.
... through an age in which stone arrow - points were used , and eventually passed into an iron age , the variation in development depending on the absence or presence of NO . 2288 , VOL . 92 ] 14 [ SEPTEMBER 4 , 1913 NATURE.
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... ( NATURE , August 7 ) , Mr. R. C. Mossman contributed a fourth article to Symons's Meteorological Magazine for August . He pointed out an interesting instance of the temporary character of many correlations . The example chosen was the ...
... ( NATURE , August 7 ) , Mr. R. C. Mossman contributed a fourth article to Symons's Meteorological Magazine for August . He pointed out an interesting instance of the temporary character of many correlations . The example chosen was the ...
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Sir Norman Lockyer. SEPTEMBER 11 , 1913 ] NATURE have not extended our laboratory inductions too far . The ... nature , so laboriously ascertained and carefully formulated , are but conventions after all , not truths ; that we ...
Sir Norman Lockyer. SEPTEMBER 11 , 1913 ] NATURE have not extended our laboratory inductions too far . The ... nature , so laboriously ascertained and carefully formulated , are but conventions after all , not truths ; that we ...
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... natural unit of negative elec- tricity , and it may not be long before the natural unit of positive electricity is found too . But concerning the nature of the positive unit there is at present some division into opposite camps . One ...
... natural unit of negative elec- tricity , and it may not be long before the natural unit of positive electricity is found too . But concerning the nature of the positive unit there is at present some division into opposite camps . One ...
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... nature ? Do not these things suggest something higher and nobler and more joyous , something for the sake of which all the struggle for existence goes on ? Surely there must be a deeper meaning involved in natural objects . Orthodox ...
... nature ? Do not these things suggest something higher and nobler and more joyous , something for the sake of which all the struggle for existence goes on ? Surely there must be a deeper meaning involved in natural objects . Orthodox ...
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Page 36 - But it is owing to the first approximation that the cause of these anomalies was found, in the existence of a transition layer; and all the essentials of Fresnel's theory have remained. We cannot help reflecting that all these relations would never have been noted if there had been doubt in the first place as to the complexity of the objects they connect. Long ago it was said : If Tycho had had instruments ten times as precise, we would never have had a Kepler, or a Newton, or astronomy. It is a...