Astronomical and Geographical Essaysauthor, 1789 - 665 páginas |
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... USE O F THE CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL GLOBES , Exemplified in a Variety of PROBLEMS , which are defigned to illuftrate the Phænomena of the Earth and Heavens , in the most eafy and natural Manner . III . THE DESCRIPTION AND USE OF THE ...
... USE O F THE CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL GLOBES , Exemplified in a Variety of PROBLEMS , which are defigned to illuftrate the Phænomena of the Earth and Heavens , in the most eafy and natural Manner . III . THE DESCRIPTION AND USE OF THE ...
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... use is as extenfive , as it's researches are fub- lime . Navigation owns it for it's guide : by it commerce has been extended , and geography improved ; and thus it has co - operated with other causes in the greatest of all works , the ...
... use is as extenfive , as it's researches are fub- lime . Navigation owns it for it's guide : by it commerce has been extended , and geography improved ; and thus it has co - operated with other causes in the greatest of all works , the ...
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... use of it , if he travels into another country , and there fees an engine of the fame fort , will not reasonably con- clude that it is defigned for the fame purpose ? So when we know that the use of this planet , the earth , is for an ...
... use of it , if he travels into another country , and there fees an engine of the fame fort , will not reasonably con- clude that it is defigned for the fame purpose ? So when we know that the use of this planet , the earth , is for an ...
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... , and to understand their relation to each other . Now on a globe these circles have their true form , their interfections and relative poft ons 24 pofitions are vifible upon the most curfory in- fpection . 242 DESCRIPTION AND USE.
... , and to understand their relation to each other . Now on a globe these circles have their true form , their interfections and relative poft ons 24 pofitions are vifible upon the most curfory in- fpection . 242 DESCRIPTION AND USE.
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... use , and it's tranflation into Dutch , & c . The recom¬ mendation of Meff . Arden , Walker , * Burton , & c . public lecturers in natural philofophy , might alfo be adduced ; but leaving thefe con- fiderations , I fhall proceed to ...
... use , and it's tranflation into Dutch , & c . The recom¬ mendation of Meff . Arden , Walker , * Burton , & c . public lecturers in natural philofophy , might alfo be adduced ; but leaving thefe con- fiderations , I fhall proceed to ...
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