The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of ScienceTaylor & Francis, 1861 |
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Page 348 - ... interesting, not only to physicists, but to all who desire to understand how much evidence the explanation of phenomena lends to the credibility of a theory, or how far we ought to regard a coincidence in the mathematical expression of two sets of phenomena as an indication that these phenomena are of the same kind. We know that partial coincidences of this kind have been discovered ; and the fact that they are only partial is proved by the divergence of the laws of the two sets of phenomena...
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