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See also:NICOL, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (? 1768-1851}, Scottish physicist, was See also:born about 1768, and died as See also:Edinburgh on the 2nd of See also:September
1851. Nothing is known of his See also:early See also:history beyond the fact that, after amassing a small competence as a popular lecturer on natural See also:philosophy, he settled in Edinburgh to live a very retired See also:life in the society of his apparatus alone. Besides the invention of the See also:prism known by his name (" A method of increasing the divergence of the two rays in calcareous spar, so as to produce a single See also:image," New Edin. Journ., 1828), he devoted himself chiefly to the examination of fluid-filled cavities in crystals, and of the microscopic structure of various kinds of fossil See also:wood. His skill as a working See also:lapidary was very See also:great; and he prepared a number of lenses of See also:garnet and other See also:precious stones, which he preferred to the achromatic microscopes of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time.
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