The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, 11. köideA. and C. Black, 1860 |
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Page 84
... extend- ing for miles into the bowels of the earth ; and far in the interior of these caves , where impenetrable darkness and everlasting silence reign , living eyeless creatures are found- more particularly a number of different kinds ...
... extend- ing for miles into the bowels of the earth ; and far in the interior of these caves , where impenetrable darkness and everlasting silence reign , living eyeless creatures are found- more particularly a number of different kinds ...
Page 95
... extended from the ends of the arch towards a point a little south of the zenith , forming a second but much fainter arch . Within the northern arch appeared a narrower lumi- nous band , concentric with the exterior curve , and separated ...
... extended from the ends of the arch towards a point a little south of the zenith , forming a second but much fainter arch . Within the northern arch appeared a narrower lumi- nous band , concentric with the exterior curve , and separated ...
Page 96
... extended and grown brighter , while the low luminous segment , diffusing itself upward , had merged into the outer arch , which now reached nearly to the pole - star . At this moment the arch began to send off succes- sive waves of ...
... extended and grown brighter , while the low luminous segment , diffusing itself upward , had merged into the outer arch , which now reached nearly to the pole - star . At this moment the arch began to send off succes- sive waves of ...
Page 98
... extended over all the northern and part of the southern half of the sky . Innumerable waves of white , yellowish , and purplish light chased each other from every quarter towards the magnetic pole , while the crimson flush before ...
... extended over all the northern and part of the southern half of the sky . Innumerable waves of white , yellowish , and purplish light chased each other from every quarter towards the magnetic pole , while the crimson flush before ...
Page 121
... extended commentary on it entitled the " Tso- chuen , " by Tso - kin - ming , who was a contemporary and an intimate friend of Confucius . This work should , I think , be also translated , as it gives a detailed account of astronomical ...
... extended commentary on it entitled the " Tso- chuen , " by Tso - kin - ming , who was a contemporary and an intimate friend of Confucius . This work should , I think , be also translated , as it gives a detailed account of astronomical ...
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