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Excerpt from Beyond the Atom
IT is a strange and striking fact that both the beginning and the end of the nineteenth century pre-eminently the century of advance in physical science - were marked by extraordinary outbursts of fundamea discoveries. Let us note a few events which may be found grouped within a year or two of the turn of the eighteenth century.
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