Hardwicke's Science Gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 29. köideMordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Ellor Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1893 |
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... picture , with the sun shining upon their iridescent wings . They were particularly plentiful in a certain meadow by the river- side , where also a number of butterflies and day- flying moths were besporting themselves amid fragrant ...
... picture , with the sun shining upon their iridescent wings . They were particularly plentiful in a certain meadow by the river- side , where also a number of butterflies and day- flying moths were besporting themselves amid fragrant ...
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... pictures were exhibited representing all the details of a building which had been taken at a distance of 500 yards . Two cameras seem to be necessary , one supplied with a long focus landscape lens , and the other with Mr. Dallmeyer's ...
... pictures were exhibited representing all the details of a building which had been taken at a distance of 500 yards . Two cameras seem to be necessary , one supplied with a long focus landscape lens , and the other with Mr. Dallmeyer's ...
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... picture of stars is required , the exposure may be only for a few seconds , but a spectrum or a nebula may require an exposure of some hours . This is possible by means of an equatorial driven by accurate clock- work . Should it be ...
... picture of stars is required , the exposure may be only for a few seconds , but a spectrum or a nebula may require an exposure of some hours . This is possible by means of an equatorial driven by accurate clock- work . Should it be ...
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... picture , their fuscus and black markings mingling beautifully with the bleached blossoms of Viola canina , which in places gave the ground quite a light blue tinge . The insects were very sluggish and easily taken , two pretty ...
... picture , their fuscus and black markings mingling beautifully with the bleached blossoms of Viola canina , which in places gave the ground quite a light blue tinge . The insects were very sluggish and easily taken , two pretty ...
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... pictures that at some period in primrose story , it became so poised to escape from the snow that lies long on the grassy flanks of the mountains . As seen beneath the lens which reveals the scheme of creation , the oxlips mostly have ...
... pictures that at some period in primrose story , it became so poised to escape from the snow that lies long on the grassy flanks of the mountains . As seen beneath the lens which reveals the scheme of creation , the oxlips mostly have ...
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