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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Page 554
... reason is obvious ; it would have no objects with which to compare its place and fituation at different periods of time ; and the experience of a fhip at fea in calm weather , affords fufficient proof that motion which is equable cannot ...
... reason is obvious ; it would have no objects with which to compare its place and fituation at different periods of time ; and the experience of a fhip at fea in calm weather , affords fufficient proof that motion which is equable cannot ...
Page 558
... reason of the things done ; whereas the other , as fome inanimate things , only work , not knowing what they do , juft as the fire burns : the difference betwen them being only this , that inanimate things act by a certain na- ture in ...
... reason of the things done ; whereas the other , as fome inanimate things , only work , not knowing what they do , juft as the fire burns : the difference betwen them being only this , that inanimate things act by a certain na- ture in ...
Page 620
... reason to think that it ever would be so large as on the plain . For the fame reason , as soon as the process has been inverted , by which water was converted into air , the evapora- tion inftantly takes place in the vapour that has ...
... reason to think that it ever would be so large as on the plain . For the fame reason , as soon as the process has been inverted , by which water was converted into air , the evapora- tion inftantly takes place in the vapour that has ...
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