The Intellectual Rise in Electricity: A HistoryLongmans, Green & Company, 1895 - 611 páginas |
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... tion to merely ornamental , use of the amber , though per- haps nothing strange that it is due to the keener percep- tion of woman . THE LODESTONE . 19 The lodestone or magnetite is an 18 THE INTELLECTUAL RISE IN ELECTRICITY .
... tion to merely ornamental , use of the amber , though per- haps nothing strange that it is due to the keener percep- tion of woman . THE LODESTONE . 19 The lodestone or magnetite is an 18 THE INTELLECTUAL RISE IN ELECTRICITY .
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... tion . Hence modern ethnological and geological author- ities unite with Lucretius ' and other ancient writers in affirming that the Age of Iron has always followed that of brass or bronze . So far , therefore , as establishing the ...
... tion . Hence modern ethnological and geological author- ities unite with Lucretius ' and other ancient writers in affirming that the Age of Iron has always followed that of brass or bronze . So far , therefore , as establishing the ...
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... tion , the territory of the Magnetes became too restricted for their needs , there was no alternative but to cross the Ægean and seek new footholds on the Asiatic continent , where , Pliny says , they founded the city of Magnesia in ...
... tion , the territory of the Magnetes became too restricted for their needs , there was no alternative but to cross the Ægean and seek new footholds on the Asiatic continent , where , Pliny says , they founded the city of Magnesia in ...
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... tion of it in the passage above quoted is difficult to believe . On the other hand , while Plato , in the Timæus at a later period , speaks of the " marvels that are observed about the attraction of amber and the Heraclean stone , " he ...
... tion of it in the passage above quoted is difficult to believe . On the other hand , while Plato , in the Timæus at a later period , speaks of the " marvels that are observed about the attraction of amber and the Heraclean stone , " he ...
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... tion was not unfamiliar to him ; otherwise I have encoun- tered no direct evidence of earlier knowledge of it than exists in the Timæus of Plato , and Plato lived nearly two centuries after Thales . The explanation given by Plato ...
... tion was not unfamiliar to him ; otherwise I have encoun- tered no direct evidence of earlier knowledge of it than exists in the Timæus of Plato , and Plato lived nearly two centuries after Thales . The explanation given by Plato ...
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