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... substance of the charge is general : - ' I think I am right in entertaining the opinion that is due to the overweening estimation in which Englishmen ( Britons ) not unfrequently hold the scien- tific productions of foreigners ...
... substance of the charge is general : - ' I think I am right in entertaining the opinion that is due to the overweening estimation in which Englishmen ( Britons ) not unfrequently hold the scien- tific productions of foreigners ...
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... substance might suddenly appear , 1 or some substance might suddenly vanish , and no reasoning whatever could lead to a deduction from the results of experiments under such conditions . This , then , is to be looked upon as the great ...
... substance might suddenly appear , 1 or some substance might suddenly vanish , and no reasoning whatever could lead to a deduction from the results of experiments under such conditions . This , then , is to be looked upon as the great ...
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... substance . Now , see how well Rumford laid hold of that point , and how he proceeds by ex- periment to try if possible to satisfy his doubts about it . He says : - ' If this were the case , then , according to the modern doctrines of ...
... substance . Now , see how well Rumford laid hold of that point , and how he proceeds by ex- periment to try if possible to satisfy his doubts about it . He says : - ' If this were the case , then , according to the modern doctrines of ...
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... substances produced will be precisely the same , whether you begin with lumps or with filings . You will have the same chemical sub- stance ; but if there be any mysterious difference as to the capacity for heat in them , that will be ...
... substances produced will be precisely the same , whether you begin with lumps or with filings . You will have the same chemical sub- stance ; but if there be any mysterious difference as to the capacity for heat in them , that will be ...
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... substance . It appears to me to be extremely difficult , if not quite impossible , to form any dis- tinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner in which the heat was excited and communicated in these ...
... substance . It appears to me to be extremely difficult , if not quite impossible , to form any dis- tinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner in which the heat was excited and communicated in these ...
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