Proceedings, เล่มที่ 43

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หน้า 334 - Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord : look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
หน้า 346 - ... and therefore it would be hard for me to put him to death. And let him come and meet me," said he, " and we will make peace in any way he may desire.
หน้า xxxv - The objects of the Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science in different parts of the...
หน้า xxxviii - Association, and arrange the programme for the first day of the sessions. The time and place of this first meeting shall be designated by the Permanent Secretary. Unless otherwise agreed upon, regular meetings of the...
หน้า 306 - In short, historical events appear to have been much more potent in leading races to civilization than their faculty, and it follows that achievements of races do not warrant us in assuming that one race is more highly gifted than the other.
หน้า 5 - Horrocks had shown on more scientific grounds that it was probably as small as 14 seconds, but the final death blow to the ancient values ranging as high as two or three minutes came from these observations of Mars by Flamsteed, Cassini and Richer. Of course the results obtained in 1672 produced a keen desire on the part of astronomers for further evidence respecting the true value of the parallax, and as Mars comes into a favorable position for such investigations only at intervals of about sixteen...
หน้า 1 - ... Along certain lines, or, more properly, in certain regions, these sciences necessarily abut on each other, and just there lies the weakness of the specialist. He is like a wayfarer who always finds obstacles in crossing the boundaries between two countries, while to the traveler who gazes over them from a commanding eminence the case is quite different. If the boundary is an ocean shore, there is no mistaking it; if a broad river or a chain of mountains, it is still distinct; but if only a line...
หน้า 315 - Our conclusion is, that there are differences between the physical characters of races which make it probable that there may be differences in faculty. No unquestionable fact, however, has been found yet which would prove beyond a doubt that it will be impossible for certain races to attain a higher civilization.
หน้า 21 - ... of a second. Looking at the question from another point of view, it is notorious that the contact observations of the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769 were so discordant that from the same observations Encke and EJ Stone got respectively for the solar parallax 8.59
หน้า 16 - ... as the time required by light to traverse the semi-diameter of the earth's orbit first presented itself in the guise of a correction to the computed times of the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites, it has received the name of the light equation. The earth's orbit being interior to that of Jupiter, and both having the sun for their center, it is evident that the...

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