The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 |
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... force was advancing upon Athens , the Palicari , instead of manning the walls and preparing for a vigorous defence , rushed in a body to the houses where the prisoners were confined , and commenced an indiscriminate massacre . For this ...
... force was advancing upon Athens , the Palicari , instead of manning the walls and preparing for a vigorous defence , rushed in a body to the houses where the prisoners were confined , and commenced an indiscriminate massacre . For this ...
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... force , which rent the surface - land asunder , but left the edges of the ravine to show by their form that they had ... forces by which that elevation was effected , to conclude that the defining of the present con- tinental and oceanic ...
... force , which rent the surface - land asunder , but left the edges of the ravine to show by their form that they had ... forces by which that elevation was effected , to conclude that the defining of the present con- tinental and oceanic ...
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... force of vapour be sub- tracted from the whole pressure , what remains will show only one daily maximum and minimum , has not been con- firmed by observation , it follows that the above explanation is quite insufficient to account for ...
... force of vapour be sub- tracted from the whole pressure , what remains will show only one daily maximum and minimum , has not been con- firmed by observation , it follows that the above explanation is quite insufficient to account for ...
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... force on which the great movements of the atmosphere depend , viz . , simultaneous The other principal motive force in atmospheric circula- tion depends on the aqueous vapour . The many ways in which this element acts as a motive force ...
... force on which the great movements of the atmosphere depend , viz . , simultaneous The other principal motive force in atmospheric circula- tion depends on the aqueous vapour . The many ways in which this element acts as a motive force ...
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... force of the wind is proportional to the barometric gradient , or the quotient of the dis- tance between two places stated in miles by the difference of pressure stated in inches of mercury as observed at the two places . Hence , in the ...
... force of the wind is proportional to the barometric gradient , or the quotient of the dis- tance between two places stated in miles by the difference of pressure stated in inches of mercury as observed at the two places . Hence , in the ...
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