ISSN:
1476-4687
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
Notes:
[Auszug] SIR - When Homer sang of the "wine-dark" sea(seeMtfwre303, 568, 1983; 307, 590; 309, 204, 1984) what he had in mind must surely have been its darkness, rather than the colour, and "dark as wine" might be a better translation. After all, one can say that "her eyes sparkled like diamonds", without ...
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Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/309490d0