Half Hours with Modern Scientists, 1. köideCharles C. Chatfield, 1871 - 288 pages |
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... molecules , which are indestructible and unchangeable in themselves ; but , in endless transmigration , unite in in- numerable permutations , into the diversified forms of life we know ? Or , is the matter of life composed of ordinary ...
... molecules , which are indestructible and unchangeable in themselves ; but , in endless transmigration , unite in in- numerable permutations , into the diversified forms of life we know ? Or , is the matter of life composed of ordinary ...
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... molecular physics , we shall by - and - by be able to see our way as clearly from the constituents of water to the properties of water , as we are now able to deduce the operations of a watch from the form of its parts and the manner in ...
... molecular physics , we shall by - and - by be able to see our way as clearly from the constituents of water to the properties of water , as we are now able to deduce the operations of a watch from the form of its parts and the manner in ...
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... molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it . And if so , it must be true , in the same sense and to the same extent , that the thoughts to which I am now giving utterance , and your thoughts regarding them , are the expression ...
... molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it . And if so , it must be true , in the same sense and to the same extent , that the thoughts to which I am now giving utterance , and your thoughts regarding them , are the expression ...
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... molecules , and the old no- tion of an Archæus governing and directing blind mat- ter within each living body , except this - that here , as elsewhere , matter and law have devoured spirit and spontaneity ? And as surely as every future ...
... molecules , and the old no- tion of an Archæus governing and directing blind mat- ter within each living body , except this - that here , as elsewhere , matter and law have devoured spirit and spontaneity ? And as surely as every future ...
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... molecules of matter , precisely as mechanical motion is a motion of its mass ? Thus was born the dynamic theory of force , first brought out in any completeness by Mr. Grove , in 1842 , in a lecture on the " Progress of Physical Science ...
... molecules of matter , precisely as mechanical motion is a motion of its mass ? Thus was born the dynamic theory of force , first brought out in any completeness by Mr. Grove , in 1842 , in a lecture on the " Progress of Physical Science ...
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