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SCIENCE consists in the extension of our knowledge of the external universe, and it brings about this extension in great part by reinforcement of our senses. To bring into the field of observation the very distant and the very small, are therefore regarded as important scientific achievements, and the telescope and the microscope, by means of which this widening of the realm of knowledge has been made, as important implements of research.
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Phenomena of the Time-Infinitesimal1. Nature 49, 113–117 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/049113a0
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