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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... temperature of distillation , which is isomeric with oil of turpentine , and identical with the oil of Matricaria Chamomilla , L. Galbanum is one of the oldest of drugs . In Exodus xxx . 34 it is mentioned as a sweet spice , to be used ...
... temperature of distillation , which is isomeric with oil of turpentine , and identical with the oil of Matricaria Chamomilla , L. Galbanum is one of the oldest of drugs . In Exodus xxx . 34 it is mentioned as a sweet spice , to be used ...
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... temperature being nearly 145 ° . In July and August the mean temperature is 66 ° or 67 ° Fahr .; in March it is 32 ° or 33 ° . Winter is long , and the snowfall , which oftens begins in the early part of October , is very abundant . At ...
... temperature being nearly 145 ° . In July and August the mean temperature is 66 ° or 67 ° Fahr .; in March it is 32 ° or 33 ° . Winter is long , and the snowfall , which oftens begins in the early part of October , is very abundant . At ...
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... temperature . The rainfall is exceptionally large , and snow lies on some of the loftier elevations for a considerable portion of the year . The soil is on the whole A considerable fertile , and the produce very varied . quantity of ...
... temperature . The rainfall is exceptionally large , and snow lies on some of the loftier elevations for a considerable portion of the year . The soil is on the whole A considerable fertile , and the produce very varied . quantity of ...
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... temperature of about 80 ° Fahr . The hot baths south of Tiberias include seven springs , the largest of which has a temperature of 137 ° Fahr . The plain of Gennesareth , with its environs , is the best watered part of the lake - basin ...
... temperature of about 80 ° Fahr . The hot baths south of Tiberias include seven springs , the largest of which has a temperature of 137 ° Fahr . The plain of Gennesareth , with its environs , is the best watered part of the lake - basin ...
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... temperature only when Rinieri , in 1646 , introduced the improvement of hermetically sealing the liquid in glass . The substitution , in 1670 , of mercury for water completed the modern thermometer . Galileo seems , at an early period ...
... temperature only when Rinieri , in 1646 , introduced the improvement of hermetically sealing the liquid in glass . The substitution , in 1670 , of mercury for water completed the modern thermometer . Galileo seems , at an early period ...
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