Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, Volume 5H.G. Bohn, 1858 |
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... described in 1691 in the Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences , t . ii , p . 108. Could Newton have learnt anything of a much earlier publication , of which some of the sheets were seen by Lalande in the possession of Maraldi ? ( Compare ...
... described in 1691 in the Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences , t . ii , p . 108. Could Newton have learnt anything of a much earlier publication , of which some of the sheets were seen by Lalande in the possession of Maraldi ? ( Compare ...
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... described by the Greeks , it is compared ( Cleom . Cycl . Theor . i , 8 , p . 51 ) with a flat or centrally depressed disc , a cylinder ( Anaximander ) , a cube or pyramid , and lastly we find it generally held to be a sphere not ...
... described by the Greeks , it is compared ( Cleom . Cycl . Theor . i , 8 , p . 51 ) with a flat or centrally depressed disc , a cylinder ( Anaximander ) , a cube or pyramid , and lastly we find it generally held to be a sphere not ...
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... described by too hasty a generalization as entirely devoid of vegetation , always frozen on the surface , and covered with perpetual snow , even in the plains . The extreme limit of vegetation in Northern Asia is not , as was long ...
... described by too hasty a generalization as entirely devoid of vegetation , always frozen on the surface , and covered with perpetual snow , even in the plains . The extreme limit of vegetation in Northern Asia is not , as was long ...
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... described in detail , and elucidated by examples , in Asie Centr . t . iii , pp . 465-467 , the uniform method which I have always employed in reading the azimuth circle in order to find the magnetic meridian by corresponding the ...
... described in detail , and elucidated by examples , in Asie Centr . t . iii , pp . 465-467 , the uniform method which I have always employed in reading the azimuth circle in order to find the magnetic meridian by corresponding the ...
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... described , 47 afford no sufficient ground for the suspi- cion of an error in the observation . Shortly after my arrival at Cumana I found that the inclination was 43 ° .53 . A few days before the earthquake , I was induced to begin a ...
... described , 47 afford no sufficient ground for the suspi- cion of an error in the observation . Shortly after my arrival at Cumana I found that the inclination was 43 ° .53 . A few days before the earthquake , I was induced to begin a ...
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