The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 20. köideLittle, Brown, 1886 |
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... PYTHEAS . E. H. BUNBURY . QUAIL . Prof. ALFRED NEWTON . QUAKERS . Rt . Hon . Sir EDWARD FRY . QUARANTINE . CHAS . CREIGHTON , M. D. QUATERNIONS . Prof. P. G. TAIT . QUEBEC . GEORGE STEWART , Jun . QUEENSLAND . JAMES BONWICK . QUESNAY ...
... PYTHEAS . E. H. BUNBURY . QUAIL . Prof. ALFRED NEWTON . QUAKERS . Rt . Hon . Sir EDWARD FRY . QUARANTINE . CHAS . CREIGHTON , M. D. QUATERNIONS . Prof. P. G. TAIT . QUEBEC . GEORGE STEWART , Jun . QUEENSLAND . JAMES BONWICK . QUESNAY ...
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... Pytheas . The western extremity , as already mentioned , had been in like manner determined by the prime meridian drawn through the supposed position of the Fortunate Islands . But towards the south and east Marinus gave an enormous ...
... Pytheas . The western extremity , as already mentioned , had been in like manner determined by the prime meridian drawn through the supposed position of the Fortunate Islands . But towards the south and east Marinus gave an enormous ...
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... PYTHEAS of Massilia was a celebrated Greek navi- gator and geographer , to whom the Greeks appear to have been indebted for the earliest information they possessed , of at all a definite character , concerning the western regions of ...
... PYTHEAS of Massilia was a celebrated Greek navi- gator and geographer , to whom the Greeks appear to have been indebted for the earliest information they possessed , of at all a definite character , concerning the western regions of ...
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... Pytheas ( apart from such detached notices as those already referred to ) is contained in a brief passage of Polybius , cited by Strabo , in which he tells us that Pytheas , according to his own statement , had not only visited Britain ...
... Pytheas ( apart from such detached notices as those already referred to ) is contained in a brief passage of Polybius , cited by Strabo , in which he tells us that Pytheas , according to his own statement , had not only visited Britain ...
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... Pytheas , of the Cassiterides or Tin Islands , the exploration of which might naturally have been supposed to have been one of the chief objects of his voyage . It is indeed not im- possible that the statements on this subject preserved ...
... Pytheas , of the Cassiterides or Tin Islands , the exploration of which might naturally have been supposed to have been one of the chief objects of his voyage . It is indeed not im- possible that the statements on this subject preserved ...
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