Encyclop¿dia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 1. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 579
... fome material agent . It is occafioned by a fonorous undulation of the air , or of fome elastic fluid , which fuddenly expands , and as fud . denly collapfes again . But fuch is the rapidity of the undulation , that when it is made in ...
... fome material agent . It is occafioned by a fonorous undulation of the air , or of fome elastic fluid , which fuddenly expands , and as fud . denly collapfes again . But fuch is the rapidity of the undulation , that when it is made in ...
Page 616
... fome fuperiority over other naturalifts for more general and comprehensive views , and for more fcrupulous atten- tention to precifion and measurement , and particular ly for more folicitude that no natural agent be omitted that has any ...
... fome fuperiority over other naturalifts for more general and comprehensive views , and for more fcrupulous atten- tention to precifion and measurement , and particular ly for more folicitude that no natural agent be omitted that has any ...
Page 691
... fome of thofe produced by the electric fluid ; yet there are others , and thefe not the leaft important , which differ fo widely from any effects which have e- ver been seen to arife from that fluid , that they muft derive their origin ...
... fome of thofe produced by the electric fluid ; yet there are others , and thefe not the leaft important , which differ fo widely from any effects which have e- ver been seen to arife from that fluid , that they muft derive their origin ...
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