Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...observations are essential, recourse is had to the latter place and hither most of the instruments may be conveyed, although the larger telescope is never moved from Arequipa. Investigations made here are, conducted with regard-first to the meteorology of the globe, with particular reference to cloudiness and other phenomena affecting the choice of astronomical stations; secondly, to to the fundamental principles of astronomical photography; thirdly, to the great nebulous region comprising a large part of the constellation Orion; fourthly, to the best form of standard light; and finally to other details of quantitative photometric work...
...available fire-proof building on the observatory grounds. Though the presence of this collection may be an aid, it is by no means necessary in the work of observation conducted at the observation conducted at the observatory, while the examination of the photographs with reference to the phenomena pictured by them, could be carried on equally well in another place. The reason, then for risking longer, in an old frame building, the existence of an almost invaluable library of scientific records, is difficult to find, when at slight expense, though possibly with some trouble, the collection could be temporarily shifted...
...well-knit" order; for only the "well-knit" is describable. Hence the world of Realism has "laws" in it; and these laws themselves turn out, when freed from our mere appreciative comments and additions, to be, in the last analysis laws, of "matter and motion." The describability of phenomena in space and time is thus assumed. Yet when one analyzes in what describality consists, and then asks whether space and time and matter and motion themselves are or can be ultimately describable, one finds that in the last resort they are essentially indescribable, being merely "appreciable." A further study...
Professor Dolbear of Tufts College will address the M. I. T. Electric Club on Friday evening, Dec. 5, on "The Relation between Electric Phenomena and the Ether," in room 14, New Building. All members of the Harvard Electric Club are cordially invited to attend...
...Kant's first answer is: Things in Themselves are of necessity unknown to us. We can know in a theoretical sense only the things that appear to our senses, i.e., the Phenomena of the World of Show. Neither common sense, nor science, nor theology, can, with theoretical assurance, carry us beyond the world as it seems to our human powers of observation and experience...