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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... observed to rise considerably for a time , The Sea of Galilee is best seen from the top of the western precipices , and presents a desolate appearance . On the north the hills rise gradually from the shore , which is fringed with ...
... observed to rise considerably for a time , The Sea of Galilee is best seen from the top of the western precipices , and presents a desolate appearance . On the north the hills rise gradually from the shore , which is fringed with ...
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... observed distance of the moon from a known star is that usually employed . The invention of the miscroscope , attributed to Galileo by his first biographer , Vincenzo Viviani , does not in truth belong to him . Such an instrument was ...
... observed distance of the moon from a known star is that usually employed . The invention of the miscroscope , attributed to Galileo by his first biographer , Vincenzo Viviani , does not in truth belong to him . Such an instrument was ...
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... observed of some individuals of Cynips Kollari , after hibernation . The phenomena of development in Cynips and associated genera present many features of interest . Not fewer than 12,000 living specimens of C. Kollari , Gir . ( C ...
... observed of some individuals of Cynips Kollari , after hibernation . The phenomena of development in Cynips and associated genera present many features of interest . Not fewer than 12,000 living specimens of C. Kollari , Gir . ( C ...
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... observed , provided meter , it will be useful to we can be sure that the direction of the magnetic axis does recollect that the couple not alter . In the second place the induced magnetism is tending to bring the less in hard than in ...
... observed , provided meter , it will be useful to we can be sure that the direction of the magnetic axis does recollect that the couple not alter . In the second place the induced magnetism is tending to bring the less in hard than in ...
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... observed by means of a telescope fixed over or under the centre of the scale . The scale divisions are seen to pass the wires of the telescope , and if a circular scale be used , whose centre is in the axis of suspension of the mirror ...
... observed by means of a telescope fixed over or under the centre of the scale . The scale divisions are seen to pass the wires of the telescope , and if a circular scale be used , whose centre is in the axis of suspension of the mirror ...
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