Science, Volume 1John Michels (Journalist) American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1883 Since Jan. 1901 the official proceedings and most of the papers of the American Association for the Advancement of Science have been included in Science. |
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Page 66 - For compressible flow this becomes: where y is the ratio of the specific heat at constant pressure to that at constant volume...
Page 28 - FIELD ENGINEERING. A HAND-BOOK of the Theory and Practice of RAILWAY SURVEYING, LOCATION and CONSTRUCTION, designed for CLASS-KOOM, FIELD, and OFFICE USE, and containing a large number of Useful Tables, Original and Selected.
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Page 412 - Committee names of candidates for membership, and those candidates who are approved by the Executive Committee may be elected to membership by a majority of the members present at any meeting of the society.
Page 348 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
Page 266 - THREE LECTURES ON THE PRACTICE OF EDUCATION. Delivered in the University of Cambridge in the Easter Term, 1882, under the direction of the Teachers
Page 237 - May 29, 1789, he was elected a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he was made Lieutenant-General of the Bavarian Armies and received the command of a regiment of artillery.
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Page 10 - Zirb of the undulating surface, of the position of the origin, and of the azimuth in the plane of the line normal to the ridges and valleys. Therefore the proposition is true of any combination whatever of harmonic undulations, and as any inequality may be built up of harmonic undulations, it is generally true of inequalities of any shape whatever.