The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 1. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 - 908 pages |
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... improved machines and processes have to be described , as well as fresh discoveries and altered points of view . In recent as in earlier times , invention and discovery have acted and reacted on each other to a marked extent , the ...
... improved machines and processes have to be described , as well as fresh discoveries and altered points of view . In recent as in earlier times , invention and discovery have acted and reacted on each other to a marked extent , the ...
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... improvements on the old system have been adopted , but Great Britain is still not only far behind her foreign neighbours in respect of abattoirs , but has even been excelled by some of her own dependencies . In America abattoirs are ...
... improvements on the old system have been adopted , but Great Britain is still not only far behind her foreign neighbours in respect of abattoirs , but has even been excelled by some of her own dependencies . In America abattoirs are ...
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... improvements , but the debt was soon paid off . 37,774 . The motto on the city arms is Bon - Accord . It formed the watchword of the Aberdonians while aiding King Robert the Bruce in his battles with the English . History . ABERDEEN , a ...
... improvements , but the debt was soon paid off . 37,774 . The motto on the city arms is Bon - Accord . It formed the watchword of the Aberdonians while aiding King Robert the Bruce in his battles with the English . History . ABERDEEN , a ...
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... improvement of surgery . His Surgical Ob- servations on the Constitutional Origin and Treatment of Local Diseases ( 1809 ) -known as " My Book , " from the great frequency with which he referred his patients to it , and to page 72 of it ...
... improvement of surgery . His Surgical Ob- servations on the Constitutional Origin and Treatment of Local Diseases ( 1809 ) -known as " My Book , " from the great frequency with which he referred his patients to it , and to page 72 of it ...
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... improvement . In this academy there are nine professors , and generally about four hundred students . In the year 1705 an Academy of Painting , Sculpture , and Architecture was established at Vienna , with the view of encouraging and ...
... improvement . In this academy there are nine professors , and generally about four hundred students . In the year 1705 an Academy of Painting , Sculpture , and Architecture was established at Vienna , with the view of encouraging and ...
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