Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 11. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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... earth ; that is , an earth which cannot by any process be reduced to metal . Henckel , Cra- mer , and all thofe who have examined this matter , mention this earth , and prove its existence . We ought to obferve , that this earth is ...
... earth ; that is , an earth which cannot by any process be reduced to metal . Henckel , Cra- mer , and all thofe who have examined this matter , mention this earth , and prove its existence . We ought to obferve , that this earth is ...
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... earth or other unfusible substance . The earth which is mixed with the common calciform ores is in confiderable quantity ; and is fometimes cal- careous , sometimes filiceous , and fometimes argilla- ceous . Perhaps the fufibility of ...
... earth or other unfusible substance . The earth which is mixed with the common calciform ores is in confiderable quantity ; and is fometimes cal- careous , sometimes filiceous , and fometimes argilla- ceous . Perhaps the fufibility of ...
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... earth is deduced with infallible certainty ; and hence it is confidered as part of that truth which fenfation ... earth round the fun entirely borne down by our natural fenfe of things , which made us give full credit to the motion of ...
... earth is deduced with infallible certainty ; and hence it is confidered as part of that truth which fenfation ... earth round the fun entirely borne down by our natural fenfe of things , which made us give full credit to the motion of ...
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