Outlines of AstronomyLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, 1851 - 661 pages |
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... instances in which the same principles and the same or similar modes of action take place : thus erecting , as it were , in each particular case , a separate induc- tion , and constructing at each step a little body of science to meet ...
... instances in which the same principles and the same or similar modes of action take place : thus erecting , as it were , in each particular case , a separate induc- tion , and constructing at each step a little body of science to meet ...
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... instance , the illustrations chosen have not been studiously selected from books , but are such as have presented themselves freely to the author's mind as being most in harmony with his own views ; by which , of course , he means to ...
... instance , the illustrations chosen have not been studiously selected from books , but are such as have presented themselves freely to the author's mind as being most in harmony with his own views ; by which , of course , he means to ...
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... instance , refer for any determinate marks and measures by which to recognize their changes of situation , or with which to compare their distances . ( 13. ) To the reader who now for the first time takes up a book on astronomy , it ...
... instance , refer for any determinate marks and measures by which to recognize their changes of situation , or with which to compare their distances . ( 13. ) To the reader who now for the first time takes up a book on astronomy , it ...
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... instance , whether what we call sitting still is really such : whether the station from which we view them , with ourselves , and all objects which immediately surround us , be not itself in motion , unperceived by us ; and if so , of ...
... instance , whether what we call sitting still is really such : whether the station from which we view them , with ourselves , and all objects which immediately surround us , be not itself in motion , unperceived by us ; and if so , of ...
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... instance , one of the Egyptian pyramids ) , the same holds good . ( 20. ) Masts of ships , however , and the edifices erected by man , are trifling eminences compared to what nature itself affords ; Etna , Teneriffe , Mowna Roa , are ...
... instance , one of the Egyptian pyramids ) , the same holds good . ( 20. ) Masts of ships , however , and the edifices erected by man , are trifling eminences compared to what nature itself affords ; Etna , Teneriffe , Mowna Roa , are ...
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