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... tion to believe can be obtained by no other method , and which certainly is not obtained by that from which it is a departure . It would be out of keeping with the rest of the work to have introduced into this part of it any algebraic ...
... tion to believe can be obtained by no other method , and which certainly is not obtained by that from which it is a departure . It would be out of keeping with the rest of the work to have introduced into this part of it any algebraic ...
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... . Proper motion of the stars . Partly accounted for by a real motion of the Sun. Situa- tion of the solar apex . Agreement of southern and northern stars in giving the same result . the solar motion depends CONTENTS . xxiii.
... . Proper motion of the stars . Partly accounted for by a real motion of the Sun. Situa- tion of the solar apex . Agreement of southern and northern stars in giving the same result . the solar motion depends CONTENTS . xxiii.
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... tion which will not only save the trouble of piling argument on argument to convince the sceptical , but will greatly facilitate his actual progress ; inasmuch as he will find it at once easier and more satisfactory to pursue from the ...
... tion which will not only save the trouble of piling argument on argument to convince the sceptical , but will greatly facilitate his actual progress ; inasmuch as he will find it at once easier and more satisfactory to pursue from the ...
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... tion , and constructing at each step a little body of science to meet its exigencies . The difference is that of pioneering a road through an untraversed country and advancing at ease along a broad and beaten highway ; that is to say ...
... tion , and constructing at each step a little body of science to meet its exigencies . The difference is that of pioneering a road through an untraversed country and advancing at ease along a broad and beaten highway ; that is to say ...
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... tion ; the perpetual removal of much cumbrous and unsightly material and scaffolding , and constant opening out of wider and grander conceptions ; till at length a unity and a nobility is attained , little dreamed of in the imagination ...
... tion ; the perpetual removal of much cumbrous and unsightly material and scaffolding , and constant opening out of wider and grander conceptions ; till at length a unity and a nobility is attained , little dreamed of in the imagination ...
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