The Intellectual Rise in Electricity: A HistoryLongmans, Green & Company, 1895 - 611 páginas |
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... positions of its faces . " The difficulty with this supposition is that the Pyramid is , in fact , placed with too ... position of the needle at the time of the building of the Pyramid - a period which is in doubt - might well cause ...
... positions of its faces . " The difficulty with this supposition is that the Pyramid is , in fact , placed with too ... position of the needle at the time of the building of the Pyramid - a period which is in doubt - might well cause ...
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... position facing that point , and all import- ant buildings are similarly placed . Whether the south- pointing chariots of the legend ( as the commentaries and alleged translations , made many centuries later , assert ) actually ...
... position facing that point , and all import- ant buildings are similarly placed . Whether the south- pointing chariots of the legend ( as the commentaries and alleged translations , made many centuries later , assert ) actually ...
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... positions at sea ; and obscure descriptions of these have frequently been taken as referring to the compass . The Arabs , however , never were inventors , and their early knowledge was mainly derived from Greek books , from which they ...
... positions at sea ; and obscure descriptions of these have frequently been taken as referring to the compass . The Arabs , however , never were inventors , and their early knowledge was mainly derived from Greek books , from which they ...
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... position not at all coinciding necessarily with the earth's lines of force . Consequently its magnetic quality would become more or less impaired , and that was apparently one reason for the remagnetization prior to every observation ...
... position not at all coinciding necessarily with the earth's lines of force . Consequently its magnetic quality would become more or less impaired , and that was apparently one reason for the remagnetization prior to every observation ...
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... position , north and south , would act jointly with the inertia and the liquid resistance as a force tending to stop the needle , in- stead of as a force tending to set the needle in motion in opposition to both of these resistances ...
... position , north and south , would act jointly with the inertia and the liquid resistance as a force tending to stop the needle , in- stead of as a force tending to set the needle in motion in opposition to both of these resistances ...
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