Science and Life: Aberdeen AddressesJ. Murray, 1920 - 229 páginas This work is a collection of addresses and articles written at Aberdeen University regarding the interaction between science and society. |
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... continuous supply of energy , which is derived from food . A modern maxim might be , " Look after the energy and the matter will look after itself . " In metabolism , so far as matter is concerned , there is a closed cycle . Men feed on ...
... continuous supply of energy , which is derived from food . A modern maxim might be , " Look after the energy and the matter will look after itself . " In metabolism , so far as matter is concerned , there is a closed cycle . Men feed on ...
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... continuous outpouring of energy which , making all allowance for the vast scale of cosmical events , possesses a character of permanence and endurance foreign to the processes and events which hitherto had come within the ken of science ...
... continuous outpouring of energy which , making all allowance for the vast scale of cosmical events , possesses a character of permanence and endurance foreign to the processes and events which hitherto had come within the ken of science ...
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... continuous experimental labour , the facts of radioactivity might still have been as arresting and magnificent as any discoveries ever were . But without the older knowledge , exquisitely and finely wrought , for the newer knowledge to ...
... continuous experimental labour , the facts of radioactivity might still have been as arresting and magnificent as any discoveries ever were . But without the older knowledge , exquisitely and finely wrought , for the newer knowledge to ...
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... continuous direction of energy transformations . Such a reversal may well occur under conditions still , and possibly for ever , beyond the power of experiment to reproduce in the laboratory . The dream of the alchemist , the ...
... continuous direction of energy transformations . Such a reversal may well occur under conditions still , and possibly for ever , beyond the power of experiment to reproduce in the laboratory . The dream of the alchemist , the ...
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... continuous round of labour which an army of men could not keep going for an hour . Steam engines , locomotives , electric trams , and petrol - driven motor cars have made some of the main aspects of inanimate energy very familiar . We ...
... continuous round of labour which an army of men could not keep going for an hour . Steam engines , locomotives , electric trams , and petrol - driven motor cars have made some of the main aspects of inanimate energy very familiar . We ...
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