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** What he exclaimed as he ran naked from his bath, realizing that by measuring the displacement of [[water]] an obje *** This variant derives from an earlier source than Pappus: [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman ...

...Clifford]], "On the Space-Theory of Matter," Abstract (read Feb 21, 1870) from the ''Cambridge Philosophical Society's Proceedings'' II (1876) pp. 157-158 ...this property of being curved or distorted is continually being passed on from one portion of space to another after the manner of a wave.<br />(3) That t ...

...thematicians did not feel so encumbered and have required only consistency from their lists of axioms. ...alised. As a result, Euclidean geometry was thought to derive its validity from certain self-evident universal truths; it appeared as the only type of cons ...

...ow believed that space was filled with the luminiferous ether, and matter, physicists hypothesized, was simply movement within the ether. Matter was thus etherea ...ether was persistent. It took an [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]] to remove it from the Universe. ...Gradually, over the last twenty years, '''the vacuum has t ...

** '''In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.''' ...anslated by Robert Drew Hicks (1925); also in ''The Demon and the Quantum: From the Pythagorean Mystics to Maxwell's Demon'' (2007) by Robert J. Scully, Ma ...

...region with a gaseous pressure much less than {{w|atmospheric pressure}}. Physicists often discuss ideal test results that would occur in a perfect vacuum, whic ...tter in it, without [[wiktionary:derogate#Verb|derogating]] in any respect from all other things: therefore he hath actually placed some matter in that spa ...

...pping point reached through a gradual emergence of civilization, resulting from the efforts of mankind throughout the world, a merging of the manual with t ...v.1 - Robert Fludd, Integrae Naturae.jpg|thumb|<center>"Integrae Naturae" from<br />''Utriusque cosmi...'' (1624)<br /> [[Robert Fludd]]</center>]] ...