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Page 195
The sun serves simply as a sort of dial - plate , Venus's position while in transit across this celestial dial - plate being more easily measured than when she is at large upon the sky . The devices by which Halley and Delisle severally ...
The sun serves simply as a sort of dial - plate , Venus's position while in transit across this celestial dial - plate being more easily measured than when she is at large upon the sky . The devices by which Halley and Delisle severally ...
Page 198
... means of substituting time measures or time determinations for measures of position , as we have in Venus's case , in Halley's and Delisle's methods . But , to say the truth , the advantage of substituting these time observations ...
... means of substituting time measures or time determinations for measures of position , as we have in Venus's case , in Halley's and Delisle's methods . But , to say the truth , the advantage of substituting these time observations ...
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... having eyes entirely unaltered in position , possessing equalsized fins , and retaining their young or embryonic characters ; whilst at the other extremity of the group we observe fishes in which the deformities obtain their highest ...
... having eyes entirely unaltered in position , possessing equalsized fins , and retaining their young or embryonic characters ; whilst at the other extremity of the group we observe fishes in which the deformities obtain their highest ...
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Contents
CONTENTS OF VOL CCXLII | 1 |
HOW HANDSOME SHE LOOKED Frontispiece | 18 |
Law of Likeness The and its Working By ANDREW WILSON | 44 |
Copyright | |
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