The Intellectual Rise in Electricity: A HistoryLongmans, Green & Company, 1895 - 611 páginas |
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... regarded as a mystery , none the less the knowledge of it , as these pages seek to prove , forced its way through the clouds of ignorance and superstition with the unerring directness of a projectile driven through the mist from a ...
... regarded as a mystery , none the less the knowledge of it , as these pages seek to prove , forced its way through the clouds of ignorance and superstition with the unerring directness of a projectile driven through the mist from a ...
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... regarded as the handiwork of higher gods than those which they there adored . There were many near - by sources for the lodestone which supported and magnetized the Samothracian rings ; for iron mines existed not only on the slopes of ...
... regarded as the handiwork of higher gods than those which they there adored . There were many near - by sources for the lodestone which supported and magnetized the Samothracian rings ; for iron mines existed not only on the slopes of ...
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... regarded as the period when the colonizing movement of the ancient tribes ended ; but , like all such traditions , it is unsafe to accept it as a his- torical fact . Another version of the same story is that the Magnesians settled in ...
... regarded as the period when the colonizing movement of the ancient tribes ended ; but , like all such traditions , it is unsafe to accept it as a his- torical fact . Another version of the same story is that the Magnesians settled in ...
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... regarded as cannibals and pirates . Nevertheless there had come to the outer world , reports of her magnificent cities , her great temples , and of a people so ancient and so learned , that , to the barbarians of the North , these ...
... regarded as cannibals and pirates . Nevertheless there had come to the outer world , reports of her magnificent cities , her great temples , and of a people so ancient and so learned , that , to the barbarians of the North , these ...
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... regarded them as raving in their frantic desire to break away from the mysterious force . We shall find the performances of these raving iron filings astonishing the philosophers of the sixteenth century and remaining always a puzzle ...
... regarded them as raving in their frantic desire to break away from the mysterious force . We shall find the performances of these raving iron filings astonishing the philosophers of the sixteenth century and remaining always a puzzle ...
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