The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 5Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - Natural history |
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... idea of their distance from us ; between the eye and the body we are view- when a number of objects are interposed ing , which is the case when we see the hea- venly bodies near the horizon . In his Al- magest , however , he ascribes ...
... idea of their distance from us ; between the eye and the body we are view- when a number of objects are interposed ing , which is the case when we see the hea- venly bodies near the horizon . In his Al- magest , however , he ascribes ...
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... idea predominates in their orders are often different in different classes , institution . statute , or command of a sovereign or supe- ORDINANCE , or Ordonnance , a law , rior . ORDINARY , in the civil law , signifies any judge that ...
... idea predominates in their orders are often different in different classes , institution . statute , or command of a sovereign or supe- ORDINANCE , or Ordonnance , a law , rior . ORDINARY , in the civil law , signifies any judge that ...
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... idea or sensation of fire . These birds form pensile nests , se- cure from all depredation . They are about seven inches long . Bethlehem , a genus of the Hexandria Mo- nogynia class and order . Natural order of Coronaria . Asphodeli ...
... idea or sensation of fire . These birds form pensile nests , se- cure from all depredation . They are about seven inches long . Bethlehem , a genus of the Hexandria Mo- nogynia class and order . Natural order of Coronaria . Asphodeli ...
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... ideas have been obtained respecting the formation of the earth itself . Xenophanes , more than 400 years before Christ , was led to the belief of the eternity of the universe , by discovering the remains of different ma- rine animals ...
... ideas have been obtained respecting the formation of the earth itself . Xenophanes , more than 400 years before Christ , was led to the belief of the eternity of the universe , by discovering the remains of different ma- rine animals ...
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... idea of minute basaltes . The compound Madrepores , the stelliform part of which are extended in undulating la- byrinthean forms , appear to be much less numerous as fossils than any of the other corals : their existence in a silicious ...
... idea of minute basaltes . The compound Madrepores , the stelliform part of which are extended in undulating la- byrinthean forms , appear to be much less numerous as fossils than any of the other corals : their existence in a silicious ...
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