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... action led, in the mind of Gauss, to the conviction that a theory of the propagation of electric action would in time be found to be the very keystone of electro-dynamics. Now, we are unable to conceive of propagation in time, except either as the flight of a material substance through space or as the propagation ...

— The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science • Various

... resistance and specific inductive capacity of its gutta-percha coating, in the factory, in various stages of manufacture; and he was the very first to introduce systematically into practice the grand system of absolute measurement founded in Germany by Gauss and Weber. The immense value of this step, if only in respect to the electric telegraph, is amply appreciated by all who remember or who have read something of the history of submarine telegraphy; but it can scarcely be known generally how much ...

— Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin • Robert Louis Stevenson

... realities of our profession, indeed its most important object, the human being itself, constitute an integrating part of our studies. And the question may be still further raised whether mathematics is really so exempt from skepticism. The work of Gauss, Lobatschewski, Bolyai, Lambert, ...

— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden

... the records of the occurrences of whales have, in consequence, been concentrated in these two localities. In the intervening areas, however, Expeditions, notably the 'Belgica' on the western side and the 'Gauss' on the eastern side of the Antarctic continent, have reported whales in moderately large numbers, so that the stock is by no means confined to ...

— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton

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