The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 10. köideA. et C. Black, 1879 - 856 pages |
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... contains the substance of lectures de- livered during his professorship at Padua ; and the same principle is involved in the axiom enunciated in the third of his mechanical dialogues , that " the propensity to fall of a body is equal to ...
... contains the substance of lectures de- livered during his professorship at Padua ; and the same principle is involved in the axiom enunciated in the third of his mechanical dialogues , that " the propensity to fall of a body is equal to ...
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... contains nearly 16 milligrammes per kilogramme . Its Edinburgh and Foreign Quarterly Reviews . His Encyclo- density and approximate atomic weight , and other of its pædia article " Probability " was published separately . characters ...
... contains nearly 16 milligrammes per kilogramme . Its Edinburgh and Foreign Quarterly Reviews . His Encyclo- density and approximate atomic weight , and other of its pædia article " Probability " was published separately . characters ...
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... contains large quantities of wet bog . Its southern portion is partly a continuation of the Golden Vale of Limerick , so celebrated for its fertility , and partly occupied by the Slievebaughty Mountains . The northern portion of the ...
... contains large quantities of wet bog . Its southern portion is partly a continuation of the Golden Vale of Limerick , so celebrated for its fertility , and partly occupied by the Slievebaughty Mountains . The northern portion of the ...
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... contains several antique monuments . The exchange , near the church , con- sists of an open corridor , 90 feet long by 28 broad , with a front of arches supporting an upper story , in which are apartments for holding the local courts ...
... contains several antique monuments . The exchange , near the church , con- sists of an open corridor , 90 feet long by 28 broad , with a front of arches supporting an upper story , in which are apartments for holding the local courts ...
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... contains no stipulations as to game , the landlord reserves the right of killing game to himself . The Act contains provisions for settling claims of damage either by arbitration or by action at law . Leases made before the Act are not ...
... contains no stipulations as to game , the landlord reserves the right of killing game to himself . The Act contains provisions for settling claims of damage either by arbitration or by action at law . Leases made before the Act are not ...
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