The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 10. köideThomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith R.S. Peale, 1890 |
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... cause - namely , illumination by sun - light reflected from the earth . All the time - worn fables and conjectures regarding the composition of the Milky Way were at once dissipated by the simple statement that to the eye , reinforced ...
... cause - namely , illumination by sun - light reflected from the earth . All the time - worn fables and conjectures regarding the composition of the Milky Way were at once dissipated by the simple statement that to the eye , reinforced ...
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... caused by quarantine regulations ; but the pope was sternly indig- nant at what he held to be his ingratitude and ... cause of progress had no other motive than the reluctance of the Florentine astronomer to accept discoveries which ...
... caused by quarantine regulations ; but the pope was sternly indig- nant at what he held to be his ingratitude and ... cause of progress had no other motive than the reluctance of the Florentine astronomer to accept discoveries which ...
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... cause and effect . From the time of Archimedes there had existed a science of equilibrium , but the science of motion began to exist with Galileo . It is not too much to say that the final triumph of the Copernican system was due in ...
... cause and effect . From the time of Archimedes there had existed a science of equilibrium , but the science of motion began to exist with Galileo . It is not too much to say that the final triumph of the Copernican system was due in ...
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... caused by Acarus domesticus . What are commonly known as galls are vegetable deformities or excrescences , due to ... cause of the hypertrophy , in the case of the typical galls , appears to be a minute quantity of some irritating ...
... caused by Acarus domesticus . What are commonly known as galls are vegetable deformities or excrescences , due to ... cause of the hypertrophy , in the case of the typical galls , appears to be a minute quantity of some irritating ...
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... caused to jump by the spasmodic movements of the grub within the thin - walled gall - cavity.1 a d F. 1. - a , Aleppo ... cause of the oblong or rounded green and red galls of the young shoots and leaves of the lime . Galls are formed ...
... caused to jump by the spasmodic movements of the grub within the thin - walled gall - cavity.1 a d F. 1. - a , Aleppo ... cause of the oblong or rounded green and red galls of the young shoots and leaves of the lime . Galls are formed ...
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