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already in antiquity ; just as I showed that the astro- ; 

 nomical and atomic views of nature grew out of vaguer j 

 theories of older times, and that they owe their revival 

 and scientific usefulness to the fact that they have re- 

 ceived in recent days the precise treatment of exact | 

 measurement and mathematical reasoning. i 



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