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... 19th century a British physicist , James Clerk Maxwell , showed that certain electromag- netic effects could be propagated through a vacuum with a speed equal to the measured speed of light . Thus , in the second half of the 19th century ...
... 19th century a British physicist , James Clerk Maxwell , showed that certain electromag- netic effects could be propagated through a vacuum with a speed equal to the measured speed of light . Thus , in the second half of the 19th century ...
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... 19th - century Romantic literature . Positive as it was , the influence of Rousseau must also be seen as a partly negative reaction against 18th - century rationalism with its emphasis on intellect . Belief in self - knowledge was ...
... 19th - century Romantic literature . Positive as it was , the influence of Rousseau must also be seen as a partly negative reaction against 18th - century rationalism with its emphasis on intellect . Belief in self - knowledge was ...
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The work of Johannes Müller and his students Influence of Pasteur 1 The 19th century Insect transmis- sion of disease Varieties. by Anatomy ) , a description of the appearances found by postmortem examination of almost 700 cases , in ...
The work of Johannes Müller and his students Influence of Pasteur 1 The 19th century Insect transmis- sion of disease Varieties. by Anatomy ) , a description of the appearances found by postmortem examination of almost 700 cases , in ...
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