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Excerpt from The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Vol. 4: July-December, 1877 The line of demarcation between the principal event, whose laws are to be determined, and the disturbances, here becomes still more undefined. And where we are still groping after a law of the phenomena (as in the case of meteorology) it is unknown what is to be classed as the principal event and what as disturbances. It is like looking at a series of irregular waves with ripples of various sizes on their surface until some law in the formation of the waves is discovered, it is unknown how large a ripple may be neglected in the discovery of that law. Nevertheless the only chance of discovery seems to be to neglect the ripples by some arbitrary rule, and to ex amine the main features of the series of waves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.