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• Title: Foreword: First Scientific Lecture-Course
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  • materialism — Natural Science. Future generations will
  • generations due to come at the end of the 20th century, let
• Title: First Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • teaching. In view of all the aberrations to which the Science of
  • experiment, or by conceptual elaboration of the results of
  • third way in which the scientist tries to get at the configuration of
  • fundamentally, is a rational description of Nature. Only for him
  • things purely in the mind, using the crutches of outer illustration
  • centimetre a second quicker every second, we know the ratio between
  • body which would be able to impart an acceleration of a centimetre
• Title: Second Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • quickly. We call the rate of increase of velocity the acceleration;
  • let us denote the acceleration by g. Now what will interest
  • through the prism of water and there is thus an interpenetration of
• Title: Third Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • the eye from the skull, making an anatomical preparation, the first
• Title: Fourth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • rushing. When this vibration gets into our eye, we perceive it.
  • light is, once again, a vibration at right angles to the direction in
  • vibrations happens to be vibrating downward at the very moment when
  • the vibrations of infinitesimal particles, what we were explaining
• Title: Sixth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • will ascertain that there is a connection between the vibrations
  • sound. For this field of phenomena it is quite patent: vibrations are
  • it again tomorrow — between the sounds and the vibrations of
  • through our organs of hearing. The vibrations of the air beat on our
  • vibration must be beating on the eye. But we soon see it cannot be
  • hypothetical ether with its vibrations beats upon our eye, a
  • that the different kinds of ether-vibrations are dispersed by the
  • prism; these different kinds of vibrations then appear to us as
  • Ether-vibrations are moving through space. They think they know what
  • light is in reality, — it is vibrations in the elastic ether.
  • vibrations of the elastic ether are really vibrations of
  • as vibrations in the elastic ether. In the last resort we shall get
• Title: Seventh Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • in the meantime as a kind of preparation. We are not advancing in
  • what may itself be described as an organism of vibrations, highly
  • is this inner organism of vibrations which in our ear we bring to
  • fashion. Namely they argued: If then there is this constant ratio
• Title: Eighth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • resonance — sympathetic vibration. Leonardo da Vinci was
  • vibration, which accompany the note, differ with respect to notes
  • the wave, the oscillations or vibrations. Thus in the same period
  • connected with the number of vibrations arising in the medium in
  • experiences, — transforms the vibrations of the vibrating
  • the same proposition. Outside us are the vibrations; in us are the
  • effects of the vibrations — effects that are merely
  • these benches, are so many heaps of vibrations. If you deny to
  • upon me of the vibrations of your brain. To see through a thing
• Title: Ninth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • something is there, demanding our consideration),—
• Title: Tenth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • pupils some kind of proof, some demonstration of the fact. We do it
  • impact of the chair. All this elaboration of the outer world
  • said, future generations would find it difficult to understand that
  • learned physicist of our time in peroration voices his ideal,