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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... nature of comets , the first was insidi- ously recommended to him by his passionate desire to find a physical confirmation of the earth's double motion ; the second was adopted for the purpose of rebutting an anti- Copernican argument ...
... nature of comets , the first was insidi- ously recommended to him by his passionate desire to find a physical confirmation of the earth's double motion ; the second was adopted for the purpose of rebutting an anti- Copernican argument ...
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... nature of motion once impressed is to continue indefinitely in a uniform direction , and that the effect of the medium is a retarding , not an impelling one . Another commonly received axiom was that no body could be affected by more ...
... nature of motion once impressed is to continue indefinitely in a uniform direction , and that the effect of the medium is a retarding , not an impelling one . Another commonly received axiom was that no body could be affected by more ...
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... natural philosophy in City , " founded , according to Dionysius , by a Spartan named Edinburgh . In the following year ... nature of the gall . Thus the characteristics of the currant - gall of Spathegaster baccarum , L. , which occurs ...
... natural philosophy in City , " founded , according to Dionysius , by a Spartan named Edinburgh . In the following year ... nature of the gall . Thus the characteristics of the currant - gall of Spathegaster baccarum , L. , which occurs ...
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... nature's great free highway of commerce . If the proposed depth of thirty feet at the entrance to the port of Galveston can be secured , that port would become the nearest and most accessible first class seaport for the States of Texas ...
... nature's great free highway of commerce . If the proposed depth of thirty feet at the entrance to the port of Galveston can be secured , that port would become the nearest and most accessible first class seaport for the States of Texas ...
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... nature of the case , wild animals cannot be made the subject of that absolute kind of ownership which is generally signified by the term property . The substan- tial basis of the law of property is physical possession , the actual power ...
... nature of the case , wild animals cannot be made the subject of that absolute kind of ownership which is generally signified by the term property . The substan- tial basis of the law of property is physical possession , the actual power ...
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