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IT may be truly affirmed of Physical Science, that its history, for some generations at least, has been one of rapid progress and unceasing change, and that its most earnest promoters have not claimed infallibility for their opinions, nor finality for their results. Its advancing progress has been marked by eras when some long-accepted theory or hypothesis, which had appeared so closely in accordance with all known experiments and observations as to have been received as an obvious truth, has, by further experiments extending into regions previously unexplored been found to be a faulty or incomplete representation of the phenomena.
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THOMSON, J. The Continuity of the Gaseous and Liquid States of Matter *. Nature 2, 278–281 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002278a0
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