Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, Volume 5H.G. Bohn, 1858 |
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... points of view , I were to append in the latter volumes those special results of observation upon VOL . V. B which the present condition of our knowledge is more parti- INTRODUCTION to the special results of observation in the domain ...
... points of view , I were to append in the latter volumes those special results of observation upon VOL . V. B which the present condition of our knowledge is more parti- INTRODUCTION to the special results of observation in the domain ...
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... point , in accordance with its different seasons of the year , to various meteorological processes , and to the polar ... points . Even Newton ventured only on conjectures regarding the elementary constitution of the planets which belong ...
... point , in accordance with its different seasons of the year , to various meteorological processes , and to the polar ... points . Even Newton ventured only on conjectures regarding the elementary constitution of the planets which belong ...
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... points , as well as the Hanoverian measurements and those which had been extended as far as Formentera by Biot and Arago . The results of this comparison have appeared in three forms , after undergoing a gradual correction , namely , in ...
... points , as well as the Hanoverian measurements and those which had been extended as far as Formentera by Biot and Arago . The results of this comparison have appeared in three forms , after undergoing a gradual correction , namely , in ...
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... points lying to the east and west of the Italian and Maritime Alps ) , " exhibit great deviations from the mean ellipsoidal figure of the earth , the variations in the amount of ellipticity given by pendulum lengths ( taken at different ...
... points lying to the east and west of the Italian and Maritime Alps ) , " exhibit great deviations from the mean ellipsoidal figure of the earth , the variations in the amount of ellipticity given by pendulum lengths ( taken at different ...
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... points , 18 at which the length of the simple pendulum has been determined with as much accu- racy as the position ... point of observation has been rendered somewhat uncertain by the recent experiments made on the slow upheaval of large ...
... points , 18 at which the length of the simple pendulum has been determined with as much accu- racy as the position ... point of observation has been rendered somewhat uncertain by the recent experiments made on the slow upheaval of large ...
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