The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 20. köideLittle, Brown, 1886 |
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Page 64
... direction of time depend , as just described , ( 1 ) upon the continuous sinking of the primary memory - images on the one side , and the continuous rising of the ordinary images on the other side , of that member of a series of ...
... direction of time depend , as just described , ( 1 ) upon the continuous sinking of the primary memory - images on the one side , and the continuous rising of the ordinary images on the other side , of that member of a series of ...
Page 86
... direction . The nasal opening is not far in advance of the large orbit , and in some forms there is a lachrymo - nasal fossa between them . The pre- maxillæ are large , while the maxillæ are slender . In certain species the extremities ...
... direction . The nasal opening is not far in advance of the large orbit , and in some forms there is a lachrymo - nasal fossa between them . The pre- maxillæ are large , while the maxillæ are slender . In certain species the extremities ...
Page 93
... direction extensive lands which had been totally un- known to previous geographers , and Ptolemy had acquired still more extensive information in this quarter . But unfortunately he had formed a totally false conception of the bearings ...
... direction extensive lands which had been totally un- known to previous geographers , and Ptolemy had acquired still more extensive information in this quarter . But unfortunately he had formed a totally false conception of the bearings ...
Page 94
... direction from south to north , so that by the com- bined effect of these two errors he carried up its northern extremity ( with the mouth of the Tanais and the city of that name ) as high as 54 ° 30 ' , or on the true parallel of the ...
... direction from south to north , so that by the com- bined effect of these two errors he carried up its northern extremity ( with the mouth of the Tanais and the city of that name ) as high as 54 ° 30 ' , or on the true parallel of the ...
Page 95
... directions for the scientific construction of a general map , he contents himself for the special maps of different ... direction , still con- tinued in that of Ptolemy to be the northern limit of all that was really known of Central ...
... directions for the scientific construction of a general map , he contents himself for the special maps of different ... direction , still con- tinued in that of Ptolemy to be the northern limit of all that was really known of Central ...
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