Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 9British Academy, 1976 - Humanities |
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... less absorbingly at some minor detail , grouping myths rather according to their face - value as nature - stories , or human or divine stories , and less according to our hypothetical reconstruction of them . And there has come in ...
... less absorbingly at some minor detail , grouping myths rather according to their face - value as nature - stories , or human or divine stories , and less according to our hypothetical reconstruction of them . And there has come in ...
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... less patient than Galileo's , and his results less accurate . It is rather in almost casual passages , such as those where he notes the undulatory character of motion or the conservation of energy , that his unerring grip of the great ...
... less patient than Galileo's , and his results less accurate . It is rather in almost casual passages , such as those where he notes the undulatory character of motion or the conservation of energy , that his unerring grip of the great ...
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... less , and been less . It is by the immensity of his outlook even more than by the multiplicity of his discoveries that he is taking his place among the greatest names in science— a Titanic figure , as yet but dimly seen , between ...
... less , and been less . It is by the immensity of his outlook even more than by the multiplicity of his discoveries that he is taking his place among the greatest names in science— a Titanic figure , as yet but dimly seen , between ...
Contents
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 191819 | 19 |
RALEIGH LECTURE ON HISTORY 1920 THE BRITISH SOLDIER | 29 |
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 191920 | 31 |
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