The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 |
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... body , containing members collected from every rank of the long - drawn ramification of the ancestral tree , the number of these members being amply sufficient not only to furnish the hereditary characteristics of every organ of the body ...
... body , containing members collected from every rank of the long - drawn ramification of the ancestral tree , the number of these members being amply sufficient not only to furnish the hereditary characteristics of every organ of the body ...
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... body imagined by Lucretius , and adopted by Newton , was invented for the express purpose of ac- counting for the permanence of the properties of bodies . But it fails to account for the vibrations of a molecule as revealed by the ...
... body imagined by Lucretius , and adopted by Newton , was invented for the express purpose of ac- counting for the permanence of the properties of bodies . But it fails to account for the vibrations of a molecule as revealed by the ...
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... bodies . We may picture to ourselves the streams of corpuscules coming in every direction , like light from a uniformly illuminated sky . We may imagine a material body to consist of a con- geries of atoms at considerable distances from ...
... bodies . We may picture to ourselves the streams of corpuscules coming in every direction , like light from a uniformly illuminated sky . We may imagine a material body to consist of a con- geries of atoms at considerable distances from ...
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... body , and however many bodies may be present in the field . Thus , the rebounding corpuscules exactly make up for those which are deflected by the body , and there will be no excess of the impacts on any other body in one direction or ...
... body , and however many bodies may be present in the field . Thus , the rebounding corpuscules exactly make up for those which are deflected by the body , and there will be no excess of the impacts on any other body in one direction or ...
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... body not yet detected by chemists on earth , or that or less adapted to the circumstances of its environment . the temperature of the heavenly body is such that some Hence , it has been found possible to frame a theory of substance ...
... body not yet detected by chemists on earth , or that or less adapted to the circumstances of its environment . the temperature of the heavenly body is such that some Hence , it has been found possible to frame a theory of substance ...
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