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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... distance of 40 miles inland , when it contracts into what is known more correctly as the Rio Olambo , which is not more than 2 or 3 miles from bank to bank . Two rivers , the Nkomo or Como and the Mbokwa or Bokoe , discharge into the ...
... distance of 40 miles inland , when it contracts into what is known more correctly as the Rio Olambo , which is not more than 2 or 3 miles from bank to bank . Two rivers , the Nkomo or Como and the Mbokwa or Bokoe , discharge into the ...
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... distance from the fountain of Capharnaum , and ( 2 ) the fact that Jewish tradition preserves another site . The ruins at Tell Hûm are not of necessity as old as the time of Christ . The name Hûm means black , " and is probably ...
... distance from the fountain of Capharnaum , and ( 2 ) the fact that Jewish tradition preserves another site . The ruins at Tell Hûm are not of necessity as old as the time of Christ . The name Hûm means black , " and is probably ...
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... distance of the moon from a known star is that usually employed . A series of careful observations made him ... distances , infinite velocity . The invention of the miscroscope , attributed to Galileo by his first biographer , Vincenzo ...
... distance of the moon from a known star is that usually employed . A series of careful observations made him ... distances , infinite velocity . The invention of the miscroscope , attributed to Galileo by his first biographer , Vincenzo ...
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... distances of the magnet . It is evident , therefore , that the insulating covering should be as thin as is consistent ... distance of the winding from the axis of the coil . The law is that the diameter of the wire in each layer ought to ...
... distances of the magnet . It is evident , therefore , that the insulating covering should be as thin as is consistent ... distance of the winding from the axis of the coil . The law is that the diameter of the wire in each layer ought to ...
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... distance from it equal to half the common radius . In fig . 19 , at the end of his second volume , Maxwell gives a diagram of the lines of force due to two equal parallel circular circuits , from which it will be seen that the magnetic ...
... distance from it equal to half the common radius . In fig . 19 , at the end of his second volume , Maxwell gives a diagram of the lines of force due to two equal parallel circular circuits , from which it will be seen that the magnetic ...
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