The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Latest Edition. A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 10. köideDay Otis Kellogg, Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith Werner, 1902 |
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... consists of clan history . The clan system does not seem to be very ancient . In all probability it dates from the period when the Gaelic kingdom of Scotland ceased to exist . It has been already said to date from the era of charters ...
... consists of clan history . The clan system does not seem to be very ancient . In all probability it dates from the period when the Gaelic kingdom of Scotland ceased to exist . It has been already said to date from the era of charters ...
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... consists of the terraces by which the mountain system gradually sinks down to the great eastern plains of Russia . Only a very small district near the Vistula can properly be described as lowland . The two most prominent summits of the ...
... consists of the terraces by which the mountain system gradually sinks down to the great eastern plains of Russia . Only a very small district near the Vistula can properly be described as lowland . The two most prominent summits of the ...
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... consists of a cupule to which more or less modified leaf - scales are attached , with a peduncular , oviform , inner gall.2 Mr E. Newman held the view that many oak - galls are pseudobalani , or false acorns : " to produce an acorn has ...
... consists of a cupule to which more or less modified leaf - scales are attached , with a peduncular , oviform , inner gall.2 Mr E. Newman held the view that many oak - galls are pseudobalani , or false acorns : " to produce an acorn has ...
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... consists of two bar magnets hung from the scale pans of a delicate balance each in the axis of a cylindrical bobbin of wire - one being over , the other under its corresponding > obbin ( see fig . 1 ) . The north poles of both magnets ...
... consists of two bar magnets hung from the scale pans of a delicate balance each in the axis of a cylindrical bobbin of wire - one being over , the other under its corresponding > obbin ( see fig . 1 ) . The north poles of both magnets ...
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... consists of two equal coils placed one vertically over the other , each enclosing one of the magnets of the astatic system , as in fig . 3. Another method is to place a magnet , or a system of magnets , in the neighbourhood of the ...
... consists of two equal coils placed one vertically over the other , each enclosing one of the magnets of the astatic system , as in fig . 3. Another method is to place a magnet , or a system of magnets , in the neighbourhood of the ...
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