Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, Volume 5H.G. Bohn, 1858 |
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... Regions of depression , pp . 431-436 ; Maars , Mine - funnels , pp . 231-3 . Different modes in which solid masses may reach the surface from the interior of the earth , through a net - work of fissures in the corrugated soil , without ...
... Regions of depression , pp . 431-436 ; Maars , Mine - funnels , pp . 231-3 . Different modes in which solid masses may reach the surface from the interior of the earth , through a net - work of fissures in the corrugated soil , without ...
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... region of the fixed stars , illumined by innumerable suns , whether they be isolated or circling round one another , or whether they be mere masses of remote nebulæ , is indeed to descend from the great and the universal to the ...
... region of the fixed stars , illumined by innumerable suns , whether they be isolated or circling round one another , or whether they be mere masses of remote nebulæ , is indeed to descend from the great and the universal to the ...
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... regions within the realms of space ( Cosmos , vol . iv , pp . 431-434 ) . Amid the boundless wealth of chemically varying sub- stances , with their numberless manifestations of force - amid the plastic and creative energy of the whole ...
... regions within the realms of space ( Cosmos , vol . iv , pp . 431-434 ) . Amid the boundless wealth of chemically varying sub- stances , with their numberless manifestations of force - amid the plastic and creative energy of the whole ...
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... regions of the world of thought , the earnest inves- tigator is often cheered by many sanguine hopes , which vanish almost as quickly as they have been formed . Some of the splendid discoveries of modern times have undoubtedly been of a ...
... regions of the world of thought , the earnest inves- tigator is often cheered by many sanguine hopes , which vanish almost as quickly as they have been formed . Some of the splendid discoveries of modern times have undoubtedly been of a ...
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... regions may indeed render a gradual change inappreciable to actual observation ; and according to Bessel's calculation , in order to increase the latitude of a place by a change of only 1 " , it must be assumed that there is a ...
... regions may indeed render a gradual change inappreciable to actual observation ; and according to Bessel's calculation , in order to increase the latitude of a place by a change of only 1 " , it must be assumed that there is a ...
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