The Fairy-land of ScienceD. Appleton and Company, 1903 - 252 страници |
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... space between the sun and us ? We shall see in the next lecture how these waves are the sun's messengers to the earth , and how they tear asunder the rain - drops on the ground , scattering them . in tiny particles too small for us to ...
... space between the sun and us ? We shall see in the next lecture how these waves are the sun's messengers to the earth , and how they tear asunder the rain - drops on the ground , scattering them . in tiny particles too small for us to ...
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... space as it can find wherever it can penetrate . Such simple things as these you must learn from books and by ex- periment . Then you must understand what is meant by chemical attraction ; and though I can explain this roughly here ...
... space as it can find wherever it can penetrate . Such simple things as these you must learn from books and by ex- periment . Then you must understand what is meant by chemical attraction ; and though I can explain this roughly here ...
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... space ! Did you ever wake quite early in the morning , when it was pitch - dark and you could see nothing , not even your own hand ; and then lie watching as time went on till the light came gradually creeping in at the window ? If you ...
... space ! Did you ever wake quite early in the morning , when it was pitch - dark and you could see nothing , not even your own hand ; and then lie watching as time went on till the light came gradually creeping in at the window ? If you ...
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... space from me to you . Or , secondly , if I could make a violent . movement so as to shake the floor of the room , you would feel a quivering motion ; and so I should touch you across the whole distance of the room . But in this case no ...
... space from me to you . Or , secondly , if I could make a violent . movement so as to shake the floor of the room , you would feel a quivering motion ; and so I should touch you across the whole distance of the room . But in this case no ...
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... tiny waves , travelling across space much in the same way as ripples travel across a pond . The only difficulty was to explain in what substance these waves could be travelling : not through water , 34 THE FAIRY - LAND OF SCIENCE .
... tiny waves , travelling across space much in the same way as ripples travel across a pond . The only difficulty was to explain in what substance these waves could be travelling : not through water , 34 THE FAIRY - LAND OF SCIENCE .
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