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" It would be impossible to give a history of these efforts, as the clearer heads, among whom the elder Droz must be ranked, convinced themselves of the futility of their experiments, and were naturally not inclined to speak much about them. Bewildered... "
The Correlation and Conservation of Forces: A Series of Expositions, by Prof ... - Page 206
by Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 438 pages
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The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art

1858 - 448 pages
...seekers must not be estimated as small. The nature of the problem was quite calculated to entice poring brains, to lead them round a circle for years, deceiving...evidently transferred to machines by comparing their arrangements with those of men and animals, to replace which they were applied. We still reckon the...
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The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in ..., Volume 9

1859 - 448 pages
...upon nearer approach, and finally reducing these dupes of hope to open insanity. The phantom conld not be grasped. It would be impossible to give a history...evidently transferred to machines by comparing their arrangements with those of men and animals, to replace which they were applied. We still reckon the...
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The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in ..., Volume 9

1859 - 448 pages
...brought under the dominion of mathematical mechanics, and finally a point was reached where it could bo proved, that, at least, by the use of pure mechanical...evidently transferred to machines by comparing their arrangements with those of men and animals, to replace which they were applied. We still reckon the...
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Popular lectures on scientific subjects, tr. by E. Atkinson. [1st], Volume 1

Hermann Ludwig F. von Helmholtz - 1873 - 424 pages
...seekers must not be estimated as small. The nature of the problem was quite calculated to entice poring brains, to lead them round a circle for years, deceiving...evidently transferred to machines by comparing their performances with those of men and animals, to replace which they were applied. We still reckon the...
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Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects

Helmholtz - 1873 - 452 pages
...seekers must not be estimated as small. The nature of the problem was quite calculated to entice poring brains, to lead them round a circle for years, deceiving...evidently transferred to machines by comparing their performances with those of men and animals, to replace which they were applied. We still reckon the...
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Popular lectures on scientific subjects, tr. by E. Atkinson. [1st]

Hermann Ludwig F. von Helmholtz - 1881 - 390 pages
...convinced themw;lv<* of the futility of their experiments, and were naturally not inclined to Hpeak much about them. Bewildered intellects, however, proclaimed...evidently transferred to machines by comparing their performances with those of men and animals, to replace which they were applied. We still reckon the...
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The Library of Original Sources, Volume 9

Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 482 pages
...seekers must not be estimated as small. The nature of the problem was quite calculated to entice poring brains, to lead them round a circle for years, deceiving...evidently transferred to machines by comparing their arrangements with those of men and animals to replace which they were applied. We still reckon the...
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Classics of Modern Science (Copernicus to Pasteur)

William S. Knickerbocker - 1927 - 410 pages
...to speak much about them. Bewildered intellects, however, proclaimed 276 CLASSICS OF MODERN SCIENCE often enough that they had discovered the grand secret;...evidently transferred to machines by comparing their arrangements with those of men and animals to replace which they were applied. We still reckon the...
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Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

Hermann von Helmholtz - 1995 - 446 pages
...seekers must not be estimated as small. The nature of the problem was quite calculated to entice poring brains, to lead them round a circle for years, deceiving...evidently transferred to machines by comparing their performances with those of men and animals, to replace which they were applied. We still reckon the...
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The Library of Original Sources: Volume IX (1833 - 1865)

Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 456 pages
...seekers must not be estimated as small. The nature of the problem was quite calculated to entice poring brains, to lead them round a circle for years, deceiving...evidently transferred to machines by comparing their arrangements with those of men and animals to replace which they were applied. We still reckon the...
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