The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Volume 1Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1840 |
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... the seashore ; " - probably meaning , by that allusion , not only to express his modest conviction how mere an out- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Newton; Galileo; Torricelli; Pas- cal; Prince Rupert; Montgolfier Self-educa- tion,
... the seashore ; " - probably meaning , by that allusion , not only to express his modest conviction how mere an out- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Newton; Galileo; Torricelli; Pas- cal; Prince Rupert; Montgolfier Self-educa- tion,
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... probably be not unfrequently the first to contrive and spread the fiction ; preferring , as he would in all likelihood do , the credit of being the chosen transmitter of supernatural communications to his fellow- mortals , to that of ...
... probably be not unfrequently the first to contrive and spread the fiction ; preferring , as he would in all likelihood do , the credit of being the chosen transmitter of supernatural communications to his fellow- mortals , to that of ...
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... probably , have been reserved for another than Newton . Commit- ted to the maintenance of his adopted errors , and with his mental vision even unfitted in some measure for the perception of the truth , he might , in that case , have ...
... probably , have been reserved for another than Newton . Commit- ted to the maintenance of his adopted errors , and with his mental vision even unfitted in some measure for the perception of the truth , he might , in that case , have ...
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... Probably many had asked it , but he , first of all , deliber- ately addressed himself to the work of answering it ; and hence he justly reaps all the honor of the discovery . The discovery of the regularity of oscillation of a pendulum ...
... Probably many had asked it , but he , first of all , deliber- ately addressed himself to the work of answering it ; and hence he justly reaps all the honor of the discovery . The discovery of the regularity of oscillation of a pendulum ...
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... probably might have been , for life , the employment of the genius that after- wards distinguished itself so greatly in one of the most important walks of philosophic discovery , but for cir- cumstances which , at the time when they ...
... probably might have been , for life , the employment of the genius that after- wards distinguished itself so greatly in one of the most important walks of philosophic discovery , but for cir- cumstances which , at the time when they ...
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