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  • Further he conceived the imaginary situation of the earth's being pierced all the way through; a falling body would then acquire an impétuosité that would carry it beyond the center, and thereafter would oscil - late in gradually decreasing amplitudes until it came to rest.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas WILLIAM A. WALLACE 1968

  • The important quantity in equation (3) is that con - tained in the parenthesis on the right hand side; for it determines whether k is negative, zero, or positive, and hence whether the universe is expanding or oscil - lating.

    COSMOLOGY SINCE 1850 LLOYD MOTZ 1968

  • Stimulation at a certain frequency leads to oscil - lations at the same frequency and at harmonics and subharmonics of the stimulation frequency [29].

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