The American Library of Useful Knowledge, Volume 1Stimpson and Clapp, 1831 |
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Page 31
... bodies , and the minuter mechanism of the universe , as to place it in the very first rank of physical and mathematical science . " It was discovered by the French philosopher , Malus , as late as in 1810 , by various minute and ...
... bodies , and the minuter mechanism of the universe , as to place it in the very first rank of physical and mathematical science . " It was discovered by the French philosopher , Malus , as late as in 1810 , by various minute and ...
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... bodies , is the broad field which is open for that philosophical exam- ination , the results of which it is the business of mechan- ical contrivance to apply . The leading forces or sources of motion are , as is well known , the ...
... bodies , is the broad field which is open for that philosophical exam- ination , the results of which it is the business of mechan- ical contrivance to apply . The leading forces or sources of motion are , as is well known , the ...
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... bodies . This is science , properly and emphatically so called . It is the science of pure mathematics ; and in the high branches of this science lies the true sublime of human acquisition . If any attain- ment deserve that epithet , it ...
... bodies . This is science , properly and emphatically so called . It is the science of pure mathematics ; and in the high branches of this science lies the true sublime of human acquisition . If any attain- ment deserve that epithet , it ...
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... bodies , the fall of water , which is but gravity acting on fluids , air , heat , and animal strength . For the useful direction and application of the four first of these , that is , of all of them which belong to inanimate nature ...
... bodies , the fall of water , which is but gravity acting on fluids , air , heat , and animal strength . For the useful direction and application of the four first of these , that is , of all of them which belong to inanimate nature ...
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... bodies are borne about by force or weight , and that this most beautiful and finished world is formed by their accidental meeting ? Whoever can think this possible , I do not see why he cannot also believe that , if a large number of ...
... bodies are borne about by force or weight , and that this most beautiful and finished world is formed by their accidental meeting ? Whoever can think this possible , I do not see why he cannot also believe that , if a large number of ...
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