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... kind . I cannot now go fully into the whole matter , but as some parts of the charges are , if well founded , applicable to this work , I shall allude to them here . Clausius ' first charge is that there can be no doubt that my Sketch ...
... kind . I cannot now go fully into the whole matter , but as some parts of the charges are , if well founded , applicable to this work , I shall allude to them here . Clausius ' first charge is that there can be no doubt that my Sketch ...
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... in extempore lecturing , but are intolerable in a book . Professors Clerk - Maxwell and Balfour Stewart have been kind enough to read the proofs , and to suggest several valuable improvements . The work must , however , be regarded as in.
... in extempore lecturing , but are intolerable in a book . Professors Clerk - Maxwell and Balfour Stewart have been kind enough to read the proofs , and to suggest several valuable improvements . The work must , however , be regarded as in.
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... kind , I shall take but four , two of which are in their very nature excusable , — the other two utterly unpardonable . First , there is the assumption that the earth's rotation is absolutely uniform . Now , to say nothing of the ...
... kind , I shall take but four , two of which are in their very nature excusable , — the other two utterly unpardonable . First , there is the assumption that the earth's rotation is absolutely uniform . Now , to say nothing of the ...
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... kind enough to fire first , ' is a courtesy entirely out of date ; with the weapons of the present day it would be simply suicide . To come back to our second set of elementary ideas , Matter , Position , Motion and Force . Of these ...
... kind enough to fire first , ' is a courtesy entirely out of date ; with the weapons of the present day it would be simply suicide . To come back to our second set of elementary ideas , Matter , Position , Motion and Force . Of these ...
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... kind to another , though in some cases it assumes what is called an allotropic form . The great characteristic of energy , on the other hand , is that in general we can readily transform it ( in fact it is of use to us solely because it ...
... kind to another , though in some cases it assumes what is called an allotropic form . The great characteristic of energy , on the other hand , is that in general we can readily transform it ( in fact it is of use to us solely because it ...
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