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it is only natural that

image

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Fig. 11.
dans laquelle sur les deux moitiés d'une même plaque apparaisent les ombres déviées correspondant au renversement du champ électrique
(squared, border replaced, rotated 90º)
H(enri) Becquerel (1852-1908, *). “Sur la Radio-activité da la Matière.” Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 15 (1902-04) : 85-94
Cornell copy, digitized December 18, 2013

You have to listen to the image and look at the sound.
— JLG, via.

Since... inquiry is the beginning of philosophy, and wonder and uncertainty the beginning of inquiry, it seems only natural that...
— “The E at Delphi,” in Plutarchʼs Moralia (385 C)

see a long-ago post citing Hugo de S. Victore his Meditationis est perscrutari occulta, at 603
 

8 October 2014

tags:
e; uncertainty;
H. Becquerel, “Sur la Radio-activité da la Matière” (1902-04); JLG, You have to listen to the image and look at the sound