At a time, those laws were a subtly balanced alchemy:
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Historical and Scientific Sketch of the Uuiversity of Michigan, by Charles Keudall Adams.
In 1860 the scientific course had the following requirements for admission :
'•Candidates for admission to this course will be examined in the following studies, namely :
•* (1) Mathematics: Arithmetic, algebra in the simple rules, fractions, equations of the first and second degrees, and radicals of the second degree ; geometry, the first and third books of Davies's Legendre or an equivalent in other authors.
*' (2) Physics: The following subjects as contained in the elementary works on natural philosophy, properties of matter, laws of potion, laws of falling bodies, mechanical
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tsarstepan
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Wed 5 Mar, 2014 07:19 am
@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:
There are far more important questions which need to be answered . . .
This question is best handled here:
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