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... 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 no sense whatever a finished production , though I hope it will.
... 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 no sense whatever a finished production , though I hope it will.
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... sense , Laplace and Lagrange confess- edly employed approximate methods of solution only . They left out of account what are termed technically the squares of disturbing forces ; that is to say , of two planets , each of which has ...
... sense , Laplace and Lagrange confess- edly employed approximate methods of solution only . They left out of account what are termed technically the squares of disturbing forces ; that is to say , of two planets , each of which has ...
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... sense is in this dogma the more incorrect . The fact is , that we have not yet quite cast off that tendency to so - called metaphysics which has often completely blasted the already promising career of a physical inquirer . I say ' so ...
... sense is in this dogma the more incorrect . The fact is , that we have not yet quite cast off that tendency to so - called metaphysics which has often completely blasted the already promising career of a physical inquirer . I say ' so ...
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... sense , ' which gives us the feeling of pressure , as when we move a body with our hand or foot . But we must be particularly cautious as to the way in which we treat the evidence of our senses in such matters . Think of Sound and Light ...
... sense , ' which gives us the feeling of pressure , as when we move a body with our hand or foot . But we must be particularly cautious as to the way in which we treat the evidence of our senses in such matters . Think of Sound and Light ...
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... sense ( whose indications , like those of the sense of touch in matters concerning the temperatures of bodies , are apt to be excessively misleading ) , is either a transference , or a tendency to transference , of what is called energy ...
... sense ( whose indications , like those of the sense of touch in matters concerning the temperatures of bodies , are apt to be excessively misleading ) , is either a transference , or a tendency to transference , of what is called energy ...
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