Arts and Sciences: Or, Fourth Division of "The English Encyclopedia", 3. köideCharles Knight Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1867 |
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... described in Sir William Chambers's Architecture . The following is a very accurate method of drawing the Greek volute similar to the form of the volute of the Erectheum or Minerva Polias at Athens . Divide any perpendicular height ...
... described in Sir William Chambers's Architecture . The following is a very accurate method of drawing the Greek volute similar to the form of the volute of the Erectheum or Minerva Polias at Athens . Divide any perpendicular height ...
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... described as the circle from which celestial longitude is reckoned . COLZA , OIL OF . The seeds of the Brassica campestris oleifera yield by expression about 39 per cent . of a yellow oil , which possesses a specific gravity of 9136 ...
... described as the circle from which celestial longitude is reckoned . COLZA , OIL OF . The seeds of the Brassica campestris oleifera yield by expression about 39 per cent . of a yellow oil , which possesses a specific gravity of 9136 ...
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... described in the heavens , and to unfold the laws of their movements . Tycho Brahé imagined that comets move in straight lines ; and Kepler seems to have entertained the same opinion . Hevelius was the first who conjectured that the ...
... described in the heavens , and to unfold the laws of their movements . Tycho Brahé imagined that comets move in straight lines ; and Kepler seems to have entertained the same opinion . Hevelius was the first who conjectured that the ...
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... described in the heavens , and to unfold the laws of their movements . Tycho Brahé imagined that comets move in straight lines ; and Kepler seems to have entertained the same opinion . Hevelius was the first who conjectured that the ...
... described in the heavens , and to unfold the laws of their movements . Tycho Brahé imagined that comets move in straight lines ; and Kepler seems to have entertained the same opinion . Hevelius was the first who conjectured that the ...
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... described by each comet , taking into account the perturbations pro- duced by the Earth , Jupiter , and Mars . The places of the two bodies when computed from these elements , were found to agree very nearly with the observed places ...
... described by each comet , taking into account the perturbations pro- duced by the Earth , Jupiter , and Mars . The places of the two bodies when computed from these elements , were found to agree very nearly with the observed places ...
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