The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 |
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... universal by the boundaries that now enclose it ; in other words , not so much the depression of the bottom of its basin as the elevation of its sides . Not only is the proportion of the land - surface of the globe to its water surface ...
... universal by the boundaries that now enclose it ; in other words , not so much the depression of the bottom of its basin as the elevation of its sides . Not only is the proportion of the land - surface of the globe to its water surface ...
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... universal plenum , and that all motion is like that of a fish in the water , which yields in front of the fish because the fish leaves room for it behind . " Cedere squamigeris latices nitentibus aiunt Et liquidas aperire vias , quia ...
... universal plenum , and that all motion is like that of a fish in the water , which yields in front of the fish because the fish leaves room for it behind . " Cedere squamigeris latices nitentibus aiunt Et liquidas aperire vias , quia ...
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... universal gravitation . Let us try to form some estimate of this continual bombardment of ultramundane corpuscules which is being kept up on all sides of us . We have seen that the sun stops but a very small frac- tion of the ...
... universal gravitation . Let us try to form some estimate of this continual bombardment of ultramundane corpuscules which is being kept up on all sides of us . We have seen that the sun stops but a very small frac- tion of the ...
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... universal contempt . Of the books which he most vehemently eulogised , his eulogies proved that he knew nothing . In fact , he could not read a line of the language in which they were written . Among many other foolish things , he said ...
... universal contempt . Of the books which he most vehemently eulogised , his eulogies proved that he knew nothing . In fact , he could not read a line of the language in which they were written . Among many other foolish things , he said ...
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... universal ecclesiastical and intellectual excitement ; and so powerful a mental activity as his was naturally drawn forth in all directions . Following his writings against the Manichæans come those against the Donatists . This ...
... universal ecclesiastical and intellectual excitement ; and so powerful a mental activity as his was naturally drawn forth in all directions . Following his writings against the Manichæans come those against the Donatists . This ...
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