I continue to form a column. If the column contains about twenty of these couples of metal, it will be capable of giving to the fingers several small shocks.

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I continue coupling a plate of silver with one of zinc, and always in the same order, and place between each of these couples a moistened disk. I continue to form a column. If the column contains about twenty of these couples of metal, it will be capable of giving to the fingers several small shocks.
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Couple Fingers Generosity Order
What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?
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Measurement Possible Reduction
You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong.

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You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong.
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Attractive Experiment Ideas Science Wrong
The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.
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Control Destroy Experiment Fact Language Reason
What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?
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Measurement Possible Science
I am still of the same opinion because the impossibility of the formation of mountains by the sea is demonstrated to me.

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I am still of the same opinion because the impossibility of the formation of mountains by the sea is demonstrated to me.
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Formation Impossible Opinion Sea
Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion.

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Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion.
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Different Metal Motion Power
If you have seen with your own eyes a mountain move forward in a plain; that is, a huge rock of this mountain’ breaking off and covering entire fields; a whole castle sunken into the earth.

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If you have seen with your own eyes a mountain move forward in a plain; that is, a huge rock of this mountain’ breaking off and covering entire fields; a whole castle sunken into the earth.
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Break Earth Eyes Mountain Move See
I continue to form a column. If the column contains about twenty of these couples of metal, it will be capable of giving to the fingers several small shocks.

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I continue to form a column. If the column contains about twenty of these couples of metal, it will be capable of giving to the fingers several small shocks.
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Couple Fingers Metal Science Shock
Heroes of physics, Argonauts of our time Who leaped the mountains, who crossed the seas. You have confirmed in uncomfortable places What Newton knew without leaving his study.

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Heroes of physics, Argonauts of our time Who leaped the mountains, who crossed the seas. You have confirmed in uncomfortable places What Newton knew without leaving his study.
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Confirmation Heroes Leaving Mountain Place Study Time
The most marvellous instrument which men have yet invented, the telescope and the steam engine not excepted.

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The most marvellous instrument which men have yet invented, the telescope and the steam engine not excepted.
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Exception Instrument Invention Man

I continue to form a column. If the column contains about twenty of these couples of metal, it will be capable of giving to the fingers several small shocks.

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