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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... method , is producing a luxuriant , if tangled , growth . THE ENERGY OF COAL . So far as the mere multiplication of the physical capacity of the race is concerned , the shifting and transport of loads , the hurling of projectiles or the ...
... method , is producing a luxuriant , if tangled , growth . THE ENERGY OF COAL . So far as the mere multiplication of the physical capacity of the race is concerned , the shifting and transport of loads , the hurling of projectiles or the ...
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... methods of science , that they are , indeed , new elementary substances , possessing distinct chemical character , atomic weight and spectrum . For radium , though the proportion in which it exists in the richest uranium mineral is ...
... methods of science , that they are , indeed , new elementary substances , possessing distinct chemical character , atomic weight and spectrum . For radium , though the proportion in which it exists in the richest uranium mineral is ...
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... method , she struck when she was ready to strike , with no more thought or compunction than if her neighbours had not been human beings . It is commonly supposed that the completion of the Kiel Canal fixed the exact time . The war has ...
... method , she struck when she was ready to strike , with no more thought or compunction than if her neighbours had not been human beings . It is commonly supposed that the completion of the Kiel Canal fixed the exact time . The war has ...
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... methods of our ancestors . It is due simply to the realisation of the fact that it is indispensable in war , and that without it we shall go down as completely as the Dervishes did at Omdurman and for precisely the same reason . It was ...
... methods of our ancestors . It is due simply to the realisation of the fact that it is indispensable in war , and that without it we shall go down as completely as the Dervishes did at Omdurman and for precisely the same reason . It was ...
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... methods of experiment is , at least , of equal importance with mastery over the processes of thought . In other words , laboratories are required , and , though an artist without a studio , or an evangelist without a church , might ...
... methods of experiment is , at least , of equal importance with mastery over the processes of thought . In other words , laboratories are required , and , though an artist without a studio , or an evangelist without a church , might ...
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