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... given of the branches of Human Knowledge is open to the objection of a failure in distinctness ; some sciences may claim to appear under more than one of the five classes . Thus we make Mathematics a distinct class , and yet it must be ...
... given of the branches of Human Knowledge is open to the objection of a failure in distinctness ; some sciences may claim to appear under more than one of the five classes . Thus we make Mathematics a distinct class , and yet it must be ...
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... given . Suppose a pond or small lake in which the water is at rest : then the plane surface of the water is called a horizontal plane , and the vertical direc- tion is that which is perpendicular to the horizontal plane . The floors of ...
... given . Suppose a pond or small lake in which the water is at rest : then the plane surface of the water is called a horizontal plane , and the vertical direc- tion is that which is perpendicular to the horizontal plane . The floors of ...
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... given by various authors . Thus we read " Goldbeaters , by hammering , reduce gold to leaves so thin , that 360,000 must be laid upon one another to produce the thickness of an inch . Eighteen hundred of them occupy only the space of a ...
... given by various authors . Thus we read " Goldbeaters , by hammering , reduce gold to leaves so thin , that 360,000 must be laid upon one another to produce the thickness of an inch . Eighteen hundred of them occupy only the space of a ...
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... given to the action between fluids contained in slender glass - tubes and those tubes themselves ; the term has been extended to include some other cases of action between fluids and solids , as we shall see hereafter . 76. Electrical ...
... given to the action between fluids contained in slender glass - tubes and those tubes themselves ; the term has been extended to include some other cases of action between fluids and solids , as we shall see hereafter . 76. Electrical ...
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... given as the law of attraction of particles . If the bodies are not particles , still , if the distance between them is very great compared with the size of the bodies , the law will be practically true . 79. As to the kind of ...
... given as the law of attraction of particles . If the bodies are not particles , still , if the distance between them is very great compared with the size of the bodies , the law will be practically true . 79. As to the kind of ...
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