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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... earth which he was received on his visit of congratulation to has a diurnal motion of rotation - the first as " absurd in Rome in 1624 encouraged him to hope for the realization philosophy , and formally heretical , because expressly ...
... earth which he was received on his visit of congratulation to has a diurnal motion of rotation - the first as " absurd in Rome in 1624 encouraged him to hope for the realization philosophy , and formally heretical , because expressly ...
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... earth's surface , produced by the motion of rotation . To this notion , which took its rise in a con- fusion of thought , he attached capital importance , and he treated with scorn Kepler's suggestion that a certain occult attraction of ...
... earth's surface , produced by the motion of rotation . To this notion , which took its rise in a con- fusion of thought , he attached capital importance , and he treated with scorn Kepler's suggestion that a certain occult attraction of ...
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... earth's double motion ; the second was adopted for the purpose of rebutting an anti- Copernican argument founded on the planetary analogies of those erratic subjects of the sun . Within two years of their first discovery , he had ...
... earth's double motion ; the second was adopted for the purpose of rebutting an anti- Copernican argument founded on the planetary analogies of those erratic subjects of the sun . Within two years of their first discovery , he had ...
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... earth , and we find it accordingly triumphantly brought forward by Galileo in the second of his dialogues on the systems of the world . It was urged by anti - Copernicans that a body flung upwards or cast downwards would , if the earth ...
... earth , and we find it accordingly triumphantly brought forward by Galileo in the second of his dialogues on the systems of the world . It was urged by anti - Copernicans that a body flung upwards or cast downwards would , if the earth ...
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... earth's magnetic force . Each of these forces is proportional to the magnetic moment of the galvanometer needle , and consequently the ratio of the forces , on which depends the magnitude of the deflexion of the needle , is independent ...
... earth's magnetic force . Each of these forces is proportional to the magnetic moment of the galvanometer needle , and consequently the ratio of the forces , on which depends the magnitude of the deflexion of the needle , is independent ...
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