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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... matters . In the neighbourhood of Gabii were valuable and extensive quarries of an excellent build- ing stone , known as the lapis Gabinus , which was largely used by the Romans . It was a hard and compact variety of volcanic tufa , and ...
... matters . In the neighbourhood of Gabii were valuable and extensive quarries of an excellent build- ing stone , known as the lapis Gabinus , which was largely used by the Romans . It was a hard and compact variety of volcanic tufa , and ...
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... matter on the smooth bark The galls of young trees of the white pine in America . 14 of examples of the last family are common objects on lime- leaves , and on the petioles , of the poplar . An American Aphid of the genus Pemphigus ...
... matter on the smooth bark The galls of young trees of the white pine in America . 14 of examples of the last family are common objects on lime- leaves , and on the petioles , of the poplar . An American Aphid of the genus Pemphigus ...
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... matter of indifference , and there is no necessity for the needle to be short . H Gaugain attempted to improve the tangent galvanometer by suspending the magnet ex- centrically at a point in the axis of the coil distant from the centre ...
... matter of indifference , and there is no necessity for the needle to be short . H Gaugain attempted to improve the tangent galvanometer by suspending the magnet ex- centrically at a point in the axis of the coil distant from the centre ...
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... matter with vigor . An improved harbor is all that is required . Nature has done all that is possible to be done in furnishing shelter and protection and abundance of space . The competition that an ex- cellent harbor would encourage ...
... matter with vigor . An improved harbor is all that is required . Nature has done all that is possible to be done in furnishing shelter and protection and abundance of space . The competition that an ex- cellent harbor would encourage ...
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... matter of conjecture , but , roughly speaking , the historical order of their institution was followed . We will now describe in this order the most important . ( 1. ) The foot - race . For the first 13 Olympiads the Spóuos , or single ...
... matter of conjecture , but , roughly speaking , the historical order of their institution was followed . We will now describe in this order the most important . ( 1. ) The foot - race . For the first 13 Olympiads the Spóuos , or single ...
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