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  • For the Hearing apprehended nothing but Sounds, and these came from the Undulation of the Air, when Bodies are struck one against another.

    The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail

  • Undulation is the gentlest and most ideal of motions, produced by one fluid falling on another.

    A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 1849

  • Undulation of light, comparison between Darwin's views and the theory of.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

  • An Experiment of making an Undulation of the Rays by the mixing of Liquors of differing density.

    Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669

  • The highly touted compilation, Undulation 1 (mixed by Satoshi & Hector) saw a highly touted 2003-4 world tour.

    RA News 2009

  • Undulation in nature, that shows itself in the inspiring and expiring of the breath; in desire and satiety; in the ebb and flow of the sea; in day and night; in heat and cold; and as yet more deeply ingrained in every atom and every fluid, is known to us under the name of Polarity, — these “fits of easy transmission and reflection,” as Newton called them, are the law of nature because they are the law of spirit.

    The American Scholar 2006

  • That great principle of Undulation in nature, that shows itself in the inspiring and expiring of the breath; in desire and satiety; in the ebb and flow of the sea; in day and night; in heat and cold; and as yet more deeply ingrained in every atom and every fluid, is known to us under the name of Polarity, —these “fits of easy transmission and reflection, ” as Newton called them, are the law of Nature because they are the law of spirit.

    I. Essays. The American Scholar. An Oration Delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837 1909

  • That great principle of Undulation in nature, that shows itself in the inspiring and expiring of the breath; in desire and satiety; in the ebb and flow of the sea; in day and night; in heat and cold; and as yet more deeply ingrained in every atom and every fluid, is known to us under the name of Polarity, -- these "fits of easy transmission and reflection," as Newton called them, are the law of nature because they are the law of spirit.

    Nature: Addresses and Lectures (1849) 1849

  • That great principle of Undulation in nature, that shows itself in the inspiring and expiring of the breath; in desire and satiety; in the ebb and flow of the sea; in day and night; in heat and cold; and, as yet more deeply ingrained in every atom and every fluid, is known to us under the name of Polarity, -- these "fits of easy transmission and reflection," as Newton [53] called them, are the law of nature because they are the law of spirit.

    Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

  • The Dark Underside of Undulation: Deadly Falling Ice!

    Curbed 2009

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