The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 65McClure, Phillips and Company, 1904 - Science |
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... knowledge of such phenomena upon the one star whose surface can be studied in detail . Armed with this knowledge , we may trace out with the spectroscope successive steps in the development of a star , from its origin in a nebula , on ...
... knowledge of such phenomena upon the one star whose surface can be studied in detail . Armed with this knowledge , we may trace out with the spectroscope successive steps in the development of a star , from its origin in a nebula , on ...
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... knowledge of the finer details of the calcium clouds would be greatly increased if provision could be made for photographing a much larger solar image with a spectroheliograph of improved design . And it was furthermore evident that ...
... knowledge of the finer details of the calcium clouds would be greatly increased if provision could be made for photographing a much larger solar image with a spectroheliograph of improved design . And it was furthermore evident that ...
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... knowledge to be gained . But to stop at the point reached , when there is so much of promise in the further perfection of the method , would commend itself to no one interested in the advancement of research . The principal requirements ...
... knowledge to be gained . But to stop at the point reached , when there is so much of promise in the further perfection of the method , would commend itself to no one interested in the advancement of research . The principal requirements ...
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... knowledge of the solar con- stitution might reasonably be expected to follow . It would be beyond the province of my immediate subject to discuss the methods by which the study of the physical constitution of the nebulæ and stars may be ...
... knowledge of the solar con- stitution might reasonably be expected to follow . It would be beyond the province of my immediate subject to discuss the methods by which the study of the physical constitution of the nebulæ and stars may be ...
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... Knowledge of man and knowledge of the universe do not exclude each other . In urging the claims of science we would not deny one word ever said for training in the humanities or in any branch of these . This only would we claim . There ...
... Knowledge of man and knowledge of the universe do not exclude each other . In urging the claims of science we would not deny one word ever said for training in the humanities or in any branch of these . This only would we claim . There ...
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Page 289 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
Page 531 - I am labouring to lay the foundation, not of any sect or doctrine, but of human utility and power.
Page 258 - And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
Page 337 - It is a pity to see Lord Monboddo publish such notions as he has done: a man of sense, and of so much elegant learning. There would be little in a fool doing it; we should only laugh; but when a wise man does it we are sorry. Other people have strange notions; but they conceal them. If they have tails they hide them; but Monboddo is as jealous of his tail as a squirrel.
Page 211 - There can also be little doubt that the tendency to vary in the same manner has often been so strong that all the individuals of the same species have been similarly modified without the aid of any form of selection.
Page 532 - It can be read maliciously, but abstain. She says of Romance : ' The young who avoid that region escape the title of Fool at the cost of a celestial crown.
Page 506 - Natural science must ever regard knowledge as the product of irrational conditions, for in the last resort it knows no others. It must always regard knowledge as rational, or else science itself disappears. In addition, therefore, to the difficulty of extracting from experience beliefs which experience contradicts, we are confronted with the difficulty of harmonising the pedigree of our beliefs with their title to authority. The more successful we are in explaining their origin, the more doubt we...
Page 265 - Lazear also experimented on himself at the same time, but was not infected. Some days later, while in the yellow-fever ward, he was bitten by a mosquito and noted the fact carefully. He acquired the disease in its most terrible form and died a martyr to science and a true hero. No other fatality occurred among the brave men who, in the course of the experiments, willingly exposed themselves to the infection of the dreaded disease. A camp was especially constructed for the experiments about 4 miles...