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Page 12
We can no longer consider the field of medicine as isolated; we have to see it as
linked up in a complex with the numbers of the population, the demand for
foodstuffs, the sources of paying for foodstuffs, and a whole lot of other factors.
We can no longer consider the field of medicine as isolated; we have to see it as
linked up in a complex with the numbers of the population, the demand for
foodstuffs, the sources of paying for foodstuffs, and a whole lot of other factors.
Page 39
If the revolution goes the whole way round, 360°, it of course returns to where it
was before, but if the whole turn is completed in two steps, the first half-turn of
180° would produce another hook. And one could also produce symmetrical ...
If the revolution goes the whole way round, 360°, it of course returns to where it
was before, but if the whole turn is completed in two steps, the first half-turn of
180° would produce another hook. And one could also produce symmetrical ...
Page 171
The protection would be improved if the joints became stiffer, and the whole
assembly less flexible; or if the rods became longer. But when the two shortest
rods have increased till the sum of their lengths is longer than that of the longest
rod, ...
The protection would be improved if the joints became stiffer, and the whole
assembly less flexible; or if the rods became longer. But when the two shortest
rods have increased till the sum of their lengths is longer than that of the longest
rod, ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Tools for Thought |
| Author | Conrad Hal Waddington |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cape, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 8 Oct 2009 |
| ISBN | 0224010778, 9780224010771 |
| Length | 250 pages |
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