The Book of NatureJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 467 páginas |
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... occasion to show more minutely in due time , into masses of a luminous fluid , existing independently of all stars or planets , though origin- ally , perhaps , emitted from them ; aggregated by a variety of causes that tend to give its ...
... occasion to show more minutely in due time , into masses of a luminous fluid , existing independently of all stars or planets , though origin- ally , perhaps , emitted from them ; aggregated by a variety of causes that tend to give its ...
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... occasion , spun into a thread not less than three hundred yards long , which is , notwithstanding , a much shorter length than the spider is capable of spinning his web of the same weight . Muschenbroek mentions an artist of Nuremburg ...
... occasion , spun into a thread not less than three hundred yards long , which is , notwithstanding , a much shorter length than the spider is capable of spinning his web of the same weight . Muschenbroek mentions an artist of Nuremburg ...
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... occasion to observe in a preceding lecture , is the cause to which Dr. Herschel ascribes the origin of the material universe , which he supposed at one time , though he seems afterward to have modified his opinion , as we shall notice ...
... occasion to observe in a preceding lecture , is the cause to which Dr. Herschel ascribes the origin of the material universe , which he supposed at one time , though he seems afterward to have modified his opinion , as we shall notice ...
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... occasion , they support each other's weight as powerfully as if they were in actual contact , and that some additional force is requisite in order to make them approach still nearer . Nor is the force necessary to produce this effect of ...
... occasion , they support each other's weight as powerfully as if they were in actual contact , and that some additional force is requisite in order to make them approach still nearer . Nor is the force necessary to produce this effect of ...
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... occasion . We behold it in reality throughout all nature , in every sub- stance whose particles are capable of uniting and separating with ease ; and ,. consequently , of readily obeying the laws of cohesibility and divisibility , as ...
... occasion . We behold it in reality throughout all nature , in every sub- stance whose particles are capable of uniting and separating with ease ; and ,. consequently , of readily obeying the laws of cohesibility and divisibility , as ...
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