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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... Plants and Animals . Agricul- ure . Mar , with parts of the coast bold and rocky , and with the | Leases of 19 or 21 years prevail , and the five , six , or seven interior bare , low , flat , undulating , and in parts peaty . On shift ...
... Plants and Animals . Agricul- ure . Mar , with parts of the coast bold and rocky , and with the | Leases of 19 or 21 years prevail , and the five , six , or seven interior bare , low , flat , undulating , and in parts peaty . On shift ...
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... plant with grains not larger than the head of a pin , of which is made the bread in general use throughout the country ... plants are common . Most of the domestic animals of Europe are found here . The cattle are in general small , and ...
... plant with grains not larger than the head of a pin , of which is made the bread in general use throughout the country ... plants are common . Most of the domestic animals of Europe are found here . The cattle are in general small , and ...
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... plants are hence call- ed leafless Acacias , and as the leaf - stalks are often placed with their edges towards the sky and earth , they do not intercept light so fully Leaf of Acacia heterophylla . as ordinary trees . There are about ...
... plants are hence call- ed leafless Acacias , and as the leaf - stalks are often placed with their edges towards the sky and earth , they do not intercept light so fully Leaf of Acacia heterophylla . as ordinary trees . There are about ...
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... plants ; his De Humana Phy- siognomia , from which Lavater largely borrowed ; also various works on optics and pneumatics , in which he approached the true theory of vision . He is even said by some to have anticipated Galileo in the ...
... plants ; his De Humana Phy- siognomia , from which Lavater largely borrowed ; also various works on optics and pneumatics , in which he approached the true theory of vision . He is even said by some to have anticipated Galileo in the ...
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... plants . They were particularly instructed to rectify the longitude and latitude of the principal towns ; to make astronomical , geographical , and meteorological observa- tions ; to trace the courses of rivers ; to construct the most ...
... plants . They were particularly instructed to rectify the longitude and latitude of the principal towns ; to make astronomical , geographical , and meteorological observa- tions ; to trace the courses of rivers ; to construct the most ...
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