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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... occur without loss of the absolute amount of energy . Rather what is lost is merely opportunity to direct those transformations to useful ends . In nature this opportunity passes as a rule WATER POWER 13 quickly . Of the immense amount ...
... occur without loss of the absolute amount of energy . Rather what is lost is merely opportunity to direct those transformations to useful ends . In nature this opportunity passes as a rule WATER POWER 13 quickly . Of the immense amount ...
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... occur with far greater corresponding changes of energy than physical changes , like the change of state in the vaporisation of water or con- densation of steam , so with these new changes , which are concerned with the inner ...
... occur with far greater corresponding changes of energy than physical changes , like the change of state in the vaporisation of water or con- densation of steam , so with these new changes , which are concerned with the inner ...
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... occur under conditions still , and possibly for ever , beyond the power of experiment to reproduce in the laboratory . The dream of the alchemist , the transmutation of the elements , so far from being a chimerical idea , or a process ...
... occur under conditions still , and possibly for ever , beyond the power of experiment to reproduce in the laboratory . The dream of the alchemist , the transmutation of the elements , so far from being a chimerical idea , or a process ...
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... occurring again . Then we come to grips with a practical problem . For consider the absolute stupidity and wantonness of the present war . We are fighting Germany as we would fight a homicidal maniac who has suddenly started to run ...
... occurring again . Then we come to grips with a practical problem . For consider the absolute stupidity and wantonness of the present war . We are fighting Germany as we would fight a homicidal maniac who has suddenly started to run ...
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... occurred with the Renaissance , but the two are still confused in the education of the school . I visited this summer a small place in Aberdeenshire , too small to be deemed worthy of a post office , a telegraph or telephone , but ...
... occurred with the Renaissance , but the two are still confused in the education of the school . I visited this summer a small place in Aberdeenshire , too small to be deemed worthy of a post office , a telegraph or telephone , but ...
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