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Notes on the Construction of the Violin, 1902
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1of the Violin
3sions introduced by himself; but there is nothing to warrant a belief that he could have given anything like a scientific explanation of the causes of his success.
5He may well have been in the position of Leibnitz, who undoubtedly discovered the calculus without knowing the secret of his invention; and of whom it has been said that "he seems to have stood gazing with wonder at the workings of the machine he had found, but whose mechanism he could not understand."
7There is no "secret" in the construction of American yachts; and it is quite conceivable that the success of those boats may be in a great measure due to
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