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... School of Geologists . Sir W. Thomson's arguments as to the length of time during which life has been possible on the earth . Transference of Energy - through Solids , Fluids , and through the Ether . Test of the Receptivity of a body ...
... School of Geologists . Sir W. Thomson's arguments as to the length of time during which life has been possible on the earth . Transference of Energy - through Solids , Fluids , and through the Ether . Test of the Receptivity of a body ...
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... School of Geologists . Sir W. Thomson's arguments as to the length of time during which life has been possible on the earth . Transference of Energy - through Solids , Fluids , and through the Ether . Test of the Receptivity of a body ...
... School of Geologists . Sir W. Thomson's arguments as to the length of time during which life has been possible on the earth . Transference of Energy - through Solids , Fluids , and through the Ether . Test of the Receptivity of a body ...
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... school of Geology , was simply that things had been going on and were to go on , both in the past for many millions of years , and in the future for many other mil- lions of years , at as nearly as possible the same uniform rate , that ...
... school of Geology , was simply that things had been going on and were to go on , both in the past for many millions of years , and in the future for many other mil- lions of years , at as nearly as possible the same uniform rate , that ...
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... school of philosophers and experimenters , recoiling from the notion of the hard atom , took up the following idea . All that we know of atoms will be perfectly well accounted for if we dispense altogether with the notion of an atom ...
... school of philosophers and experimenters , recoiling from the notion of the hard atom , took up the following idea . All that we know of atoms will be perfectly well accounted for if we dispense altogether with the notion of an atom ...
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... school of philosophy . But there is a lower department of natural science , most valuable as a precursor and auxiliary , which we may call scientific phenomenology ; the office of which is to observe and classify phenomena , and by ...
... school of philosophy . But there is a lower department of natural science , most valuable as a precursor and auxiliary , which we may call scientific phenomenology ; the office of which is to observe and classify phenomena , and by ...
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