"Nodal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... one which should print the message in Roman characters as it is received. So it happened that one evening while he was under the excitement of a musical improvisation, a solution of the problem flashed into his ken. His music and his science had met at this nodal point. ...
— Heroes of the Telegraph • J. Munro
... this historic belt of land profoundly strikes a man. You can see to your left and, a long way off, the hill where, as is most probable, Alfred thrust back the Pagans, and so saved one-half of Christendom. Oxford is within your landscape. The roll upwards in a glacis of the Cotswold, the nodal point of the Roman roads at Cirencester, and the ...
— First and Last • H. Belloc
... solved an acoustical problem which, though of extreme simplicity when solved, appears to have baffled many eminent men. The problem was to account for the fact that light bodies, such as the seed of lycopodium, collected at the vibrating parts of sounding plates, while sand ran to the nodal lines. Faraday showed that the light bodies were entangled in the little whirlwinds formed in the air over the places of vibration, and through which the heavier sand was readily projected. Faraday's resources as an experimentalist were so wonderful, and his delight in experiment ...
— Faraday As A Discoverer • John Tyndall
... between costa and sub-costa, and between sub-costa and media, from the base to the nodus, forming the ante-nodal ...
— Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology • John. B. Smith
... of the history of Europe begins with Rome. All the roads of his speculation start from that nodal point in the story of man. Let us take ...
— Hilaire Belloc - The Man and His Work • C. Creighton Mandell |
