The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 1. köideThomas Spencer Baynes C. Scribner's sons, 1878 |
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... ancients for arithmetical calculations ; pebbles , bits of bone , or coins , being used as counters . The accompanying figure ( 5 ) of a Roman abacus is taken from an ancient monu- ment . It contains seven long and seven shorter rods or ...
... ancients for arithmetical calculations ; pebbles , bits of bone , or coins , being used as counters . The accompanying figure ( 5 ) of a Roman abacus is taken from an ancient monu- ment . It contains seven long and seven shorter rods or ...
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... ancient and modern times . They were called by the Romans Aponi Fons , and also Aquæ Patavinæ . Popu- lation of Abano , 3000 . ABANO , PIETRO D ' , known also as Petrus de Apono or Aponensis , a distinguished physician and philosopher ...
... ancient and modern times . They were called by the Romans Aponi Fons , and also Aquæ Patavinæ . Popu- lation of Abano , 3000 . ABANO , PIETRO D ' , known also as Petrus de Apono or Aponensis , a distinguished physician and philosopher ...
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... ancient history of literature of any country , anywhere described or discussed by the Author of Waverley . The club , now dissolved , con- sisted of fifty members ; and the publications extend to 34 vols . quarto , issued during the ...
... ancient history of literature of any country , anywhere described or discussed by the Author of Waverley . The club , now dissolved , con- sisted of fifty members ; and the publications extend to 34 vols . quarto , issued during the ...
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... ancient Syria , the capital of the tetrarchy of Abilene , a territory whose limits and extent it is impossible now to define . The site of Abila is indi- cated by some ruins and inscriptions on the banks of the river Barada , between ...
... ancient Syria , the capital of the tetrarchy of Abilene , a territory whose limits and extent it is impossible now to define . The site of Abila is indi- cated by some ruins and inscriptions on the banks of the river Barada , between ...
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... ancient buildings . Stretching to the eastward as far as the Rosetta mouth of the Nile is the spacious bay of Aboukir , where Nelson fought " the Battle of the Nile , " defeating and almost destroying the French fleet that had conveyed ...
... ancient buildings . Stretching to the eastward as far as the Rosetta mouth of the Nile is the spacious bay of Aboukir , where Nelson fought " the Battle of the Nile , " defeating and almost destroying the French fleet that had conveyed ...
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