Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 17. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 459
... appears in the heavens over the ftraits a great va riety of fingular forms , fome at reft and others moving with great velocity ... appear in mo- tion among them . Some treatises have been written concerning this phenomenon ; but nothing ...
... appears in the heavens over the ftraits a great va riety of fingular forms , fome at reft and others moving with great velocity ... appear in mo- tion among them . Some treatises have been written concerning this phenomenon ; but nothing ...
Page 480
... appear- ance of a worm ; its length is much contracted , and its thickness augmented . By the time the web is finished , it is found to be transformed into an oblong roundish ball , covered with a smooth fhelly fkin , and appears to be ...
... appear- ance of a worm ; its length is much contracted , and its thickness augmented . By the time the web is finished , it is found to be transformed into an oblong roundish ball , covered with a smooth fhelly fkin , and appears to be ...
Page 678
... appear to us highly injurious to religion ; opinions which ave been fupport ed by many learned men , and which are ftill believed by fome men of literary education - it will alfo be proper , in the first place , to confider the evidence ...
... appear to us highly injurious to religion ; opinions which ave been fupport ed by many learned men , and which are ftill believed by fome men of literary education - it will alfo be proper , in the first place , to confider the evidence ...
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