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 484
... present inftruments , with a nonius , and the whole very accurately divided , are fufficient ; the only improvement wanting feems to be the application of a micrometer to fuch inftruments , to enable the obferver to read his angle with ...
... present inftruments , with a nonius , and the whole very accurately divided , are fufficient ; the only improvement wanting feems to be the application of a micrometer to fuch inftruments , to enable the obferver to read his angle with ...
Page 655
... present the place where the meteor had divided itself , we obferved a small whitish cloud , which arofe perhaps from the vapour of it , and which concealed from us the three ftars of the Great Bear , lying in the middle of thofe forming ...
... present the place where the meteor had divided itself , we obferved a small whitish cloud , which arofe perhaps from the vapour of it , and which concealed from us the three ftars of the Great Bear , lying in the middle of thofe forming ...
Page 766
... present fnow is employed in Italy , Spain , and Portugal ; but in Perfia ice . I have never any where found an account of Grecian or Roman ice - houfes . By the writers on agriculture they are not mentioned . ” are built of clay and ...
... present fnow is employed in Italy , Spain , and Portugal ; but in Perfia ice . I have never any where found an account of Grecian or Roman ice - houfes . By the writers on agriculture they are not mentioned . ” are built of clay and ...
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