The British Encyclopedia, Or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge : Illustrated with Upwards of 150 Elegant Engravings. N - R. 5Longman, 1809 - 680 pages |
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... body ; and in 1742 he was admitted an associate . In the year 1739 , the King of Sardinia being desirous of establishing a professorship of physics at Turin , gave an invitation to the Abbé Nol- let to perform a course of experimental ...
... body ; and in 1742 he was admitted an associate . In the year 1739 , the King of Sardinia being desirous of establishing a professorship of physics at Turin , gave an invitation to the Abbé Nol- let to perform a course of experimental ...
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... body , and producing very pain- ful tumours , and sometimes death . The larva are without feet , short , thick , and annulate , and often furnished with small hooks . There are twelve species , named from the animals which they infest ...
... body , and producing very pain- ful tumours , and sometimes death . The larva are without feet , short , thick , and annulate , and often furnished with small hooks . There are twelve species , named from the animals which they infest ...
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... Body above convex ; head small and placed beneath , which when the ani- mal is in motion is perpetually changing its form and size , and drawn in when at rest ; mouth placed lengthways and con- tinually varying its shape from circular ...
... Body above convex ; head small and placed beneath , which when the ani- mal is in motion is perpetually changing its form and size , and drawn in when at rest ; mouth placed lengthways and con- tinually varying its shape from circular ...
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... bodies are opaque , does not consist in the want of rec- tilinear pores , pervious every way , but either in the unequal ... body , excepting such as are lost and absorbed , by striking on solid parts : but in the bor- dering of parts of ...
... bodies are opaque , does not consist in the want of rec- tilinear pores , pervious every way , but either in the unequal ... body , excepting such as are lost and absorbed , by striking on solid parts : but in the bor- dering of parts of ...
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... body was pro- duced , the colour only being exhibited , and not his proper figure . The ancients were not only acquainted with the more ordinary appearances of refraction , but knew also the production of colours by refracted light ...
... body was pro- duced , the colour only being exhibited , and not his proper figure . The ancients were not only acquainted with the more ordinary appearances of refraction , but knew also the production of colours by refracted light ...
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