Nature, Volume 91Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1913 - Electronic journals |
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... facts , metallic conduction and some other phenomena could be considered as But intimately known . the propagation of ... fact could not escape the mind of Maxwell ; and it led him to consider those charges as atoms of electricity . Nor ...
... facts , metallic conduction and some other phenomena could be considered as But intimately known . the propagation of ... fact could not escape the mind of Maxwell ; and it led him to consider those charges as atoms of electricity . Nor ...
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... fact having been observed by Perrin , and then by Thomson , of the effective transport of negative charges by the kathode rays , a fact which suggested the hypothesis that such rays consisted of the movement of particles expelled from ...
... fact having been observed by Perrin , and then by Thomson , of the effective transport of negative charges by the kathode rays , a fact which suggested the hypothesis that such rays consisted of the movement of particles expelled from ...
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... fact , it is difficult to decide which most to admire in Thomson - the ability of the proved experimenter or the felicitous intuition of the keen thinker which leads him to foresee and anticipate the final│ interpretation of the facts ...
... fact , it is difficult to decide which most to admire in Thomson - the ability of the proved experimenter or the felicitous intuition of the keen thinker which leads him to foresee and anticipate the final│ interpretation of the facts ...
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... facts , and , in particular , with the Zeeman effect , from which is deduced , as is well known , that the emission of ... fact put into a clear light . It is usual then to say that that truth was " in the air , " as if any person in ...
... facts , and , in particular , with the Zeeman effect , from which is deduced , as is well known , that the emission of ... fact put into a clear light . It is usual then to say that that truth was " in the air , " as if any person in ...
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... fact that if a student is compelled to make himself thoroughly familiar with the analytical geometry of the straight line and circle before proceeding to other loci , he finds it hard to appreciate the purpose and the value of the work ...
... fact that if a student is compelled to make himself thoroughly familiar with the analytical geometry of the straight line and circle before proceeding to other loci , he finds it hard to appreciate the purpose and the value of the work ...
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