Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, Volume 5H.G. Bohn, 1858 |
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Page 7
... less than in the living cells of plants and animals . " The quantity of existing matter remains however the same , the elements alone change their relative positions to one another . " We thus find a verification of the ancient axiom of ...
... less than in the living cells of plants and animals . " The quantity of existing matter remains however the same , the elements alone change their relative positions to one another . " We thus find a verification of the ancient axiom of ...
Page 10
... less credible that capillary attrac- tion and endosmosis , which is so important in reference to the ascent of fluids , and in respect to animal and vegetable physiology , may be quite as much affected by the force of gra- vitation and ...
... less credible that capillary attrac- tion and endosmosis , which is so important in reference to the ascent of fluids , and in respect to animal and vegetable physiology , may be quite as much affected by the force of gra- vitation and ...
Page 11
... less intensity of gravity , the meteorological processes , the climate , the hypsometrical relations of upheaved mountain chains and the physiognomy of the vegetation would be quite different from what they now are . The absolute size ...
... less intensity of gravity , the meteorological processes , the climate , the hypsometrical relations of upheaved mountain chains and the physiognomy of the vegetation would be quite different from what they now are . The absolute size ...
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... the figures of equilibrium no less than the two previously- indicated ellipsoids of rotation . - See the treatise of this writer , whose nomical measurement of a degree , pendulum experiments , and THE FIGURE OF THE EARTH . 13.
... the figures of equilibrium no less than the two previously- indicated ellipsoids of rotation . - See the treatise of this writer , whose nomical measurement of a degree , pendulum experiments , and THE FIGURE OF THE EARTH . 13.
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... less value than they otherwise would be . In the summer of 1837 , Bessel published two treatises , one of which was devoted to the consideration of the influence of the irregularity of the earth's figure upon geodetic measurements , and ...
... less value than they otherwise would be . In the summer of 1837 , Bessel published two treatises , one of which was devoted to the consideration of the influence of the irregularity of the earth's figure upon geodetic measurements , and ...
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