The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 |
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... nature of the system , and is invariable for the same system . The relative amount of motion in different parts of the system is also determinate for each type , but the absolute amount of motion and the phase of the vibration of each ...
... nature of the system , and is invariable for the same system . The relative amount of motion in different parts of the system is also determinate for each type , but the absolute amount of motion and the phase of the vibration of each ...
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... nature , is in reality maintained in working order only by an enormous expenditure of external power , which would be nothing less than ruinous if the supply were drawn from anywhere else than from the infinitude of space , and which ...
... nature , is in reality maintained in working order only by an enormous expenditure of external power , which would be nothing less than ruinous if the supply were drawn from anywhere else than from the infinitude of space , and which ...
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... nature discontinuous , like number , the atom being the unit , and all masses being multiples of that unit . We have no evidence that it is possible for the ratio of two masses to be an incommensur- able quantity , for the ...
... nature discontinuous , like number , the atom being the unit , and all masses being multiples of that unit . We have no evidence that it is possible for the ratio of two masses to be an incommensur- able quantity , for the ...
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... nature to which these molecules have been subjected since the world began have not been able in all that time to produce any appreciable difference between the constants of one mole- cule and those of another , we are forced to conclude ...
... nature to which these molecules have been subjected since the world began have not been able in all that time to produce any appreciable difference between the constants of one mole- cule and those of another , we are forced to conclude ...
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... nature of the process whereby our mental energy is strengthened in particular cases . This increase of force , when conscious- ness is directed to any one object to the exclusion of others , is partly to be explained by reference to the ...
... nature of the process whereby our mental energy is strengthened in particular cases . This increase of force , when conscious- ness is directed to any one object to the exclusion of others , is partly to be explained by reference to the ...
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