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... follow that great master , Airy , whose pupil he was , and the key to whose character was exactness and accuracy ; and he recognises that Science is impotent except in her own limited sphere . It has been necessary to curtail many parts ...
... follow that great master , Airy , whose pupil he was , and the key to whose character was exactness and accuracy ; and he recognises that Science is impotent except in her own limited sphere . It has been necessary to curtail many parts ...
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... follow the plane- tary positions . And , again , the desire to foretell the weather is so laudable that we cannot blame the ancient Greeks for announcing the influence of the moon with as much confidence as it is affirmed in Lord ...
... follow the plane- tary positions . And , again , the desire to foretell the weather is so laudable that we cannot blame the ancient Greeks for announcing the influence of the moon with as much confidence as it is affirmed in Lord ...
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... follow , the Copernican theory , whose birth was welcomed by the Church , had now been taken up by certain anti - clerical agitators , and was opposed by the cardinals as well as by the dignitaries of the Reformed Church . Galileo - a ...
... follow , the Copernican theory , whose birth was welcomed by the Church , had now been taken up by certain anti - clerical agitators , and was opposed by the cardinals as well as by the dignitaries of the Reformed Church . Galileo - a ...
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... follow the same law as to distance as is given by the planetary motions round the sun ? It has been stated that in this way the first conception of universal gravitation arose.1 Quite the most important event in the whole history of ...
... follow the same law as to distance as is given by the planetary motions round the sun ? It has been stated that in this way the first conception of universal gravitation arose.1 Quite the most important event in the whole history of ...
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... follows that Kepler's third law is only another way of saying that the sun's force on different planets ( besides depending as above on distance ) is proportional to their masses . Having further proved the , for that day , wonderful ...
... follows that Kepler's third law is only another way of saying that the sun's force on different planets ( besides depending as above on distance ) is proportional to their masses . Having further proved the , for that day , wonderful ...
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