Nature, Volume 55Nature Publishing Group, 1896 - Science |
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Page 177
... body whose weight is 1 pound . Now there are your standards in one piece of metal and in its environment , and in your instru- ments . You can keep the name I pound as the weight according to law , or you can call 1 pound the inertia of ...
... body whose weight is 1 pound . Now there are your standards in one piece of metal and in its environment , and in your instru- ments . You can keep the name I pound as the weight according to law , or you can call 1 pound the inertia of ...
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... body temperature , in order to gain information as to the approximate number of organisms which are likely to find access to our respiratory tract , and which have a chance of thriving there . I have not attempted to separate the ...
... body temperature , in order to gain information as to the approximate number of organisms which are likely to find access to our respiratory tract , and which have a chance of thriving there . I have not attempted to separate the ...
Page 317
... body . It is a definite and invariable quantity , whether you have the body at latitude of or at latitude 90 ' ; whether you conceive it trans- ferred to the surface of Jupiter , or to the outermost ring of Saturn . On the other hand ...
... body . It is a definite and invariable quantity , whether you have the body at latitude of or at latitude 90 ' ; whether you conceive it trans- ferred to the surface of Jupiter , or to the outermost ring of Saturn . On the other hand ...
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