Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, Volume 5H.G. Bohn, 1858 |
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... already discovered the important result , that the sun operates on the earth's magnetism by the magnetic power proper to its mass . He had discovered ( Phil . Tr . for 1850 , p . i , p . 216 , Cosmos , vol . v , p . 140 ) , that the ...
... already discovered the important result , that the sun operates on the earth's magnetism by the magnetic power proper to its mass . He had discovered ( Phil . Tr . for 1850 , p . i , p . 216 , Cosmos , vol . v , p . 140 ) , that the ...
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... already well ascertained alteration of the magnetic declination in the course of a lunar day , the lunar - diurnal magnetic variation ( Sabine , in the Report to the Brit . Assoc . at Liverpool , 1854 , p . 11 , and for Hobart - town in ...
... already well ascertained alteration of the magnetic declination in the course of a lunar day , the lunar - diurnal magnetic variation ( Sabine , in the Report to the Brit . Assoc . at Liverpool , 1854 , p . 11 , and for Hobart - town in ...
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... already made ( Cosmos , vol . iii , pp . 2-6 ) , be considered merely as an expansion and more careful exposition of the General Picture of Nature ( Cosmos , vol . i , pp . 62-369 ) , and as the uranological or sidereal sphere of the ...
... already made ( Cosmos , vol . iii , pp . 2-6 ) , be considered merely as an expansion and more careful exposition of the General Picture of Nature ( Cosmos , vol . i , pp . 62-369 ) , and as the uranological or sidereal sphere of the ...
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... already had occasion frequently to re- mark ( Cosmos , vol . i , pp . 44-49 and pp . 124-125 ; vol . iii , pp . 2 , 18 , and 22-28 ) , from the exclusion of all recognition of heterogeneity of matter , and presents us with the solu ...
... already had occasion frequently to re- mark ( Cosmos , vol . i , pp . 44-49 and pp . 124-125 ; vol . iii , pp . 2 , 18 , and 22-28 ) , from the exclusion of all recognition of heterogeneity of matter , and presents us with the solu ...
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... already in Cosmos , vol . iv , pp . 481- 532 , made mention of an almost analogous optical method suggested by Arago , and based upon the observation that the intensity of the ash- coloured light , that is to say the terrestrial light ...
... already in Cosmos , vol . iv , pp . 481- 532 , made mention of an almost analogous optical method suggested by Arago , and based upon the observation that the intensity of the ash- coloured light , that is to say the terrestrial light ...
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