His labors, however, were interrupt ed by the death of his assistant Flemming, and by his own illness, which proved fatal in 1846, a few months before the actual discovery of Neptune. 李贝.西洋科学史.
The atom, to be sure, can no longer be consider ed the smallest unit of matter, as the mass of a β particle is approximately one seventeen-hundredths that of an atom of hydrogen. 李贝.西洋科学史.
As a great modern philosopher has said, Aristotle press ed his way through the mass of things knowable, and subjected its diversity to the power of his thought. 李贝.西洋科学史.
Later he invent ed simple pendulum devices for timing the pulse of patients, and even made some advances in applying his discovery in the construction of pendulum clocks. 李贝.西洋科学史.
Nevertheless, Bacon was not wrong in pointing out the virtues of a method which he and many others turn ed to good account. 李贝.西洋科学史.
They also contriv ed to temper the metal, and to make helmets, swords, lance-points, ploughs, tools, and other implements of iron. 李贝.西洋科学史.
I myself have _luge-ed_ into the streets of Montreux. 欧内斯特·海明威.永别了,武器.
This great physicist had prov ed t hat cathode rays are composed not of negatively charged molecules, as had been supposed, but of much smaller particles or corp uscles. 李贝.西洋科学史.
Ed'cated at no end of expense. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
I never was so much surprised in all my life,--couldn't credit my own ed,--to tell you the truth, hardly believed it were my own ed. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.