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The Relativity of ‘Meaning’ - Nature
MR. WILLIAMSON points out that in most ordinary language the meaning of a sentence depends on its context only to a trifling or zero degree. It may be that a theory of meaning ...
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“The Home Life of an Astronomer” - Nature
THE use of the words “old Newtonian theory” in connexion with the value of the deflexion of light rays passing close to the sun predicted by Einstein's restricted
Gravitation and Electrodynamics - Nature
IN the last of his Rhodes lectures delivered at Oxford a year ago, Prof. A. Einstein pointed out that a defect in the original form of the general theory of relativity ...
Man and the Universe: The Wider Problems of Astronomy - Nature
WHEN the theory of relativity was enlarged so as to cover the facts of astronomy, it became necessary to discard the symmetry between space and time which ...
Our Bookshelf.: Physics - Nature
THIS treatise, which is now in its sixth edition, is an admirably well balanced book. The first treats of geometrical optics, a subject which some physicists forget is of great practical value ...
Current Topics and Events - Nature
The outstanding problems of our time, that of radiation on one hand and of atomic structure on the other, have been at least partially solved by the electro-magnetic theory
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