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Popular Scientific Lectures · Ernst Mach — chapter 35 of 80 · ~144 words · public domain

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Alcohol and water, mixture of oil and, in Plateau's experiments, 4.

Algebra, economy of, 196.

Alien thoughts in science, 196.

All, the, 88.

Amontons, 174, 346.

Ampère, the word, 314.

Ampère's swimmer, 207.

Analogies, mechanical, 157, 160; generally, 236-258.

Analogy, defined, 250.

Analysis, 188.

Analytical geometry, not necessary to physicians, 370, footnote.

Anatomic structures, transparent stereoscopic views of, 74.

Anatomy, character of research in, 255.

Andrieu, Jules, 49, footnote.

Animals, the psychical activity of, 190, 231; the language of, 238; their capacity for experience, 266 et seq.

Animism, 186, 187, 243, 254.

Anisotropic optical fields, 227.

Apparatus for producing movements of rotation, 287 et seq.

Arabesque, an inverted, 95.

Arabian Nights, 219.

Arago, 270.

Aral, the Sea of, 239.

Archæopteryx, 257.

Archimedes, 4, 237.

Arcimboldo, Giuseppe, 36.

Area, principle of least superficial, 10 et seq.

Ares, the bellowing of the wounded, 272.

Aristotelians, 283.

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