Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural TheologyH.G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1862 - 328 pages |
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... Courses and a Dessert . A Series of Tales , embellished with 50 humorous Illustrations by Cruik shank . Dante . Translated by I. C. Wright , M.A. New Edition , carefully revised . Portrait and 34 Illustrations on Steel , after Flaxman ...
... Courses and a Dessert . A Series of Tales , embellished with 50 humorous Illustrations by Cruik shank . Dante . Translated by I. C. Wright , M.A. New Edition , carefully revised . Portrait and 34 Illustrations on Steel , after Flaxman ...
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... course of nature is brought about , and made to be what it is . If a man were , by some extraordinary event , to find himself in a remote and unknown country , so entirely strange to him that he did not know whether there existed in it ...
... course of nature is brought about , and made to be what it is . If a man were , by some extraordinary event , to find himself in a remote and unknown country , so entirely strange to him that he did not know whether there existed in it ...
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... course of the visible universe , therefore , is but the collective result of such laws ; its movements are only the aggregate of their working . All natural occurrences in the skies and on the earth , in the organic and in the inorganic ...
... course of the visible universe , therefore , is but the collective result of such laws ; its movements are only the aggregate of their working . All natural occurrences in the skies and on the earth , in the organic and in the inorganic ...
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... courses are regulated by the proper- ties of conic sections , and the winds depend on arith- metical and geometrical ... course of the material world , which is at present open to man . The general impres- sion , however , which arises ...
... courses are regulated by the proper- ties of conic sections , and the winds depend on arith- metical and geometrical ... course of the material world , which is at present open to man . The general impres- sion , however , which arises ...
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... course of nature to be known , and the explanations of their causes now generally esta- blished among astronomers and natural philosophers to be conceded . We shall assume , therefore , that the earth is a solid globe of ascertained ...
... course of nature to be known , and the explanations of their causes now generally esta- blished among astronomers and natural philosophers to be conceded . We shall assume , therefore , that the earth is a solid globe of ascertained ...
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