The Life of Sir Humphry Davy: Late President of the Royal Society Foreign Associate of the Royal Institute of FranceHenry Colburnan and Richard Bentley, 1831 - 547 pages |
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... matter . - He commences his attempt of un- rolling the Papyri . - His failure . - He complains of the persons at the head of the department in the Museum . He analyses the waters of the Baths of Lucca . - His return to England . — Death ...
... matter . - He commences his attempt of un- rolling the Papyri . - His failure . - He complains of the persons at the head of the department in the Museum . He analyses the waters of the Baths of Lucca . - His return to England . — Death ...
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... matter in dispute , with respect to an ethereal or transcendental fluid ; but that few young men remote from the society of persons conversant with science , will present themselves , who are capable of devising any thing so ingenious ...
... matter in dispute , with respect to an ethereal or transcendental fluid ; but that few young men remote from the society of persons conversant with science , will present themselves , who are capable of devising any thing so ingenious ...
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... matter , from the different modifications of which all the phenomena of its changes result , appear to me more ... matter , as the vulgar philosophy supposes spirit to bear to matter . That the particles of bodies must move , or separate ...
... matter , from the different modifications of which all the phenomena of its changes result , appear to me more ... matter , as the vulgar philosophy supposes spirit to bear to matter . That the particles of bodies must move , or separate ...
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... matter of his " RESEARCHES " will afford us much assistance . The close philosophical reasoning , the patient and penetrating industry , — the candid submission to every intimation of experiment , and the accuracy of manipulation , so ...
... matter of his " RESEARCHES " will afford us much assistance . The close philosophical reasoning , the patient and penetrating industry , — the candid submission to every intimation of experiment , and the accuracy of manipulation , so ...
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... matter ; and new instruments of experiment , and new modes of research , must be found , before we can ascertain even our capabilities of discovering the laws of life . " There is one circumstance connected with the views entertained in ...
... matter ; and new instruments of experiment , and new modes of research , must be found , before we can ascertain even our capabilities of discovering the laws of life . " There is one circumstance connected with the views entertained in ...
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