The Intellectual Rise in Electricity: A HistoryLongmans, Green & Company, 1895 - 611 páginas |
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... turn there have been tan- gled skeins to unravel , whereof the true clews have , no doubt , often been missed ; diverging roads , where one selects a path never without misgivings . But with all due submission , I venture to believe ...
... turn there have been tan- gled skeins to unravel , whereof the true clews have , no doubt , often been missed ; diverging roads , where one selects a path never without misgivings . But with all due submission , I venture to believe ...
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... turn , came from its use in spinning , the oldest handiwork known to the race , and in the mode of spinning which has been employed since the very beginning of civilization . So that we may conjecture that the name came down from the ...
... turn , came from its use in spinning , the oldest handiwork known to the race , and in the mode of spinning which has been employed since the very beginning of civilization . So that we may conjecture that the name came down from the ...
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... turn , it will place itself nearly in the line of a meridian of the earth - that is , nearly in a north and south direction . This is its directive tendency , or , as William Gilbert called it in 1600 , its " verticity , " and upon this ...
... turn , it will place itself nearly in the line of a meridian of the earth - that is , nearly in a north and south direction . This is its directive tendency , or , as William Gilbert called it in 1600 , its " verticity , " and upon this ...
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... turn itself in a definite direction ; or to do this repeatedly and with different pieces and thus learn that the phenomenon is true of this particular stone and not of other stones , obvi- ously involves no necessary knowledge of its ...
... turn itself in a definite direction ; or to do this repeatedly and with different pieces and thus learn that the phenomenon is true of this particular stone and not of other stones , obvi- ously involves no necessary knowledge of its ...
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... Ionia on their re- turn from Troy ; still another makes them out , not willing 1Abbott , E. A .: History of Greece , New York , 1888 . THE ORIGIN OF THE MAGNET . 27 emigrants , but 26 THE INTELLECTUAL RISE IN ELECTRICITY .
... Ionia on their re- turn from Troy ; still another makes them out , not willing 1Abbott , E. A .: History of Greece , New York , 1888 . THE ORIGIN OF THE MAGNET . 27 emigrants , but 26 THE INTELLECTUAL RISE IN ELECTRICITY .
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