Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, Volume 5H.G. Bohn, 1858 |
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... Terrestrial Phenomena , Volcanoes , Earth- quakes , Springs , & c . 5s . 51. CARPENTER'S VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY AND SYSTEMATIC BOTANY . New edition , carefully revised . 217 Wood Engravings . 68 . 52. DE JUSSIEU'S ELEMENTS OF BOTANY . By ...
... Terrestrial Phenomena , Volcanoes , Earth- quakes , Springs , & c . 5s . 51. CARPENTER'S VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY AND SYSTEMATIC BOTANY . New edition , carefully revised . 217 Wood Engravings . 68 . 52. DE JUSSIEU'S ELEMENTS OF BOTANY . By ...
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... terrestrial magnetism ( Phil . Trans . for 1856 , p . 361 ) , as shown by the abundant testimony of hourly observations carried on for a course of eight years at Hobart Town , from January 1841 to December 1848 . Thus both hemispheres ...
... terrestrial magnetism ( Phil . Trans . for 1856 , p . 361 ) , as shown by the abundant testimony of hourly observations carried on for a course of eight years at Hobart Town , from January 1841 to December 1848 . Thus both hemispheres ...
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... terrestrial objects has been preserved , which we find by the earliest evidences of human knowledge to have prevailed among all nations . As in the realms of space , a transition to our own plane- tary system from the region of the ...
... terrestrial objects has been preserved , which we find by the earliest evidences of human knowledge to have prevailed among all nations . As in the realms of space , a transition to our own plane- tary system from the region of the ...
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... bring us in contact with terrestrial nature , and while astronomy , which , as the knowledge of moving luminous celestial bodies is most acces- sible to mathematical treatment , has been the means of B 2 INTRODUCTION . 3.
... bring us in contact with terrestrial nature , and while astronomy , which , as the knowledge of moving luminous celestial bodies is most acces- sible to mathematical treatment , has been the means of B 2 INTRODUCTION . 3.
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... terrestrial sphere . Even Aristotle in his Physics states , that " the fundamental prin- ciples of all nature are change and motion ; he who does not recognise this truth recognises not nature herself " ( Phys . Auscult . iii , 1 p ...
... terrestrial sphere . Even Aristotle in his Physics states , that " the fundamental prin- ciples of all nature are change and motion ; he who does not recognise this truth recognises not nature herself " ( Phys . Auscult . iii , 1 p ...
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