The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Volume 1Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1840 |
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... genius , have availed themselves , for the enlargement of the boundaries of philosophy , of such common occurrences , as , from their very commonness , had escaped the attention of all less active and original minds . We are not now ...
... genius , have availed themselves , for the enlargement of the boundaries of philosophy , of such common occurrences , as , from their very commonness , had escaped the attention of all less active and original minds . We are not now ...
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... genius , assimilated with its thoughts . * The existence of gravitation , or a tendency to fall towards the centre of the earth , was already known , as affecting all bodies in the immediate vicinity of our planet ; and the great ...
... genius , assimilated with its thoughts . * The existence of gravitation , or a tendency to fall towards the centre of the earth , was already known , as affecting all bodies in the immediate vicinity of our planet ; and the great ...
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... genius , who , upon hearing of Torricelli's experiment , first made the remark , that the inference which he had deduced from it might , if true , be con- firmed beyond the possibility of dispute , by carrying the mercurial tube to a ...
... genius , who , upon hearing of Torricelli's experiment , first made the remark , that the inference which he had deduced from it might , if true , be con- firmed beyond the possibility of dispute , by carrying the mercurial tube to a ...
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... genius the rich- est produce of philosophy . We extract an account of the circumstance from the Treatise on Hydrostatics , in the Library of Useful Knowledge . " The proposition which forms the foundation of this branch of Hydrostatics ...
... genius the rich- est produce of philosophy . We extract an account of the circumstance from the Treatise on Hydrostatics , in the Library of Useful Knowledge . " The proposition which forms the foundation of this branch of Hydrostatics ...
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... genius and learning , fol- lowed his father's trade of a blacksmith till he was eighteen years old , when he began of his own accord to apply to his studies ; and , by availing himself of the aid sometimes of one friend , and sometimes ...
... genius and learning , fol- lowed his father's trade of a blacksmith till he was eighteen years old , when he began of his own accord to apply to his studies ; and , by availing himself of the aid sometimes of one friend , and sometimes ...
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