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In French: ''[[:fr:Sur la preuve de la réalité de l’éther lumineux|Sur la preu ...erometer whose optical circuit encloses a specific area, and which rotates in the plane of this circuit, detects its overall motion with respect to the v ...

''Concerning the motion of particles in a non-resistant medium, determined by a method of maxima and minima'' ...that the '''integrated momentum''' (i.e., the sum of all momenta contained in the particle's movement) is the minimized quantity. This assertion is not ...

In German: ''Zur Relativitätstheorie. II. Vierdimensionale Vektoranalysis'', 3 as four-dimensional extensions of the usual operations in ordinary vector-calculus ...

...ical and philosophical works of the Right Rev. John Wilkins{{ref|502}}.... In two volumes. London, 1802, 8vo. ...ut a year. He squared the circle, and his performance was printed at Paris in 1494. I have never seen it, nor any work of the author, except a tract on p ...

...f to be the round man stuck in the three-cornered hole, to be explained as in Sydney Smith's joke. ...e is a kind of Cabbala Alphabetica which the investigators of the numerals in words would do well to take up: it is the formation of sentences which cont ...

...ersons still send to Greenwich, now and then, to have their fortunes told. In one case, not very many years ago, a young gentleman begged to know who his ...t shortly after. I do not vouch for the first story, but I have the second in Zach's handwriting. It would mend the joke exceedingly if some day a real r ...

:Theory of Parallels. The proof of Euclid's axiom looked for in the properties of the Equiangular Spiral. By Lieut-Col. G. Perronet Thompso ...o not feel sure that even a paternal love for his theory would induce him, in the case I am supposing, to exhibit himself at the British Association, ...