Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, and Reviews, Volume 1

Voorkant
D. Appleton and Company, 1892

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Pagina 165 - Nor knew her beauty's best attire Was woven still by the snow-white choir. At last she came to his hermitage, Like the bird from the woodlands to the cage; The gay enchantment was undone, A gentle wife, but fairy none.
Pagina 423 - On the Calorific Effects of Magneto-Electricity, and on the Mechanical Value of Heat.
Pagina 6 - that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distances from each other.
Pagina 183 - We were right under the tower. A little farther on the cataract, after its first plunge, hit a protuberance some way down, and flew from it in a prodigious burst of spray ; through this we staggered.

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