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... enormous subject of Natural Philosophy . It has not only thus enabled us to exhibit the science in a complete and connected form , but it has also , specially by the application of the laws of Thermo - dynamics ( to which a large part ...
... enormous subject of Natural Philosophy . It has not only thus enabled us to exhibit the science in a complete and connected form , but it has also , specially by the application of the laws of Thermo - dynamics ( to which a large part ...
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... upon this approximation , at least without enormous labour , mathematical methods of a far more powerful order than have yet been invented are requisite , and therefore it is not from this point of view that 8 INTRODUCTORY .
... upon this approximation , at least without enormous labour , mathematical methods of a far more powerful order than have yet been invented are requisite , and therefore it is not from this point of view that 8 INTRODUCTORY .
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... enormously extended series of previous experiments , that no portion of matter , however small , goes out of existence or comes into existence in any operation whatever . If the chemist were not certain that at the end of his operations ...
... enormously extended series of previous experiments , that no portion of matter , however small , goes out of existence or comes into existence in any operation whatever . If the chemist were not certain that at the end of his operations ...
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... enormously in advance of his time — and perhaps in some respects even of our time - Newton was . The first of these is contained in his simple state- ment of the second law of motion . I shall read it , not in his own words , but in a ...
... enormously in advance of his time — and perhaps in some respects even of our time - Newton was . The first of these is contained in his simple state- ment of the second law of motion . I shall read it , not in his own words , but in a ...
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... enormous step he took , and what was the sole great difficulty remaining in his way . Then I showed you how , in regard to the particular branch of it which we call the dynamical theory of heat , Rumford and Davy had , at the very end ...
... enormous step he took , and what was the sole great difficulty remaining in his way . Then I showed you how , in regard to the particular branch of it which we call the dynamical theory of heat , Rumford and Davy had , at the very end ...
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