The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 10. köideThomas Spencer Baynes C. Scribner's Sons, 1879 |
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... less multi- farious than those of an earlier Tuscan prodigy , Leonardo da Vinci , seemed at this time equally ready to develop in any direction towards which choice or hazard might incline them . In musical skill and invention he ...
... less multi- farious than those of an earlier Tuscan prodigy , Leonardo da Vinci , seemed at this time equally ready to develop in any direction towards which choice or hazard might incline them . In musical skill and invention he ...
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... less than thirteen years after the last of the three laws had been given to the world , the epicycles by which Copernicus , adhering to the ancient postulate of uniform circular motion , had endeavoured to reduce to theory the ...
... less than thirteen years after the last of the three laws had been given to the world , the epicycles by which Copernicus , adhering to the ancient postulate of uniform circular motion , had endeavoured to reduce to theory the ...
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... less remarkable for the sagacity which directed , | tions of the planets with the axial rotation of the sun . than for the inspiration which prompted them . With the This notion , it is plain , tended rather towards Descartes's sure ...
... less remarkable for the sagacity which directed , | tions of the planets with the axial rotation of the sun . than for the inspiration which prompted them . With the This notion , it is plain , tended rather towards Descartes's sure ...
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... less mucilage than Aleppo galls . Several other varieties of galls are produced by Aphides on species of Pistacia . M. J. Lichtenstein has established the fact that from the egg of the Aphis of Pistachio galls , Anopleura lentisci , is ...
... less mucilage than Aleppo galls . Several other varieties of galls are produced by Aphides on species of Pistacia . M. J. Lichtenstein has established the fact that from the egg of the Aphis of Pistachio galls , Anopleura lentisci , is ...
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... less in hard than in soft steel , though not so much less as some writers would lead us to suppose . The best way of avoiding induced magnetism would be to make the needle spherical in form ; the advantage thus gained , however , would ...
... less in hard than in soft steel , though not so much less as some writers would lead us to suppose . The best way of avoiding induced magnetism would be to make the needle spherical in form ; the advantage thus gained , however , would ...
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