The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - Natural history |
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... figure of the reflecting body , the other from the different refran- gibility of the rays themselves : this last is called the Newtonian aberration , from the name of the discoverer . ABETTOR , or ABBETTOR , in law , the person who ...
... figure of the reflecting body , the other from the different refran- gibility of the rays themselves : this last is called the Newtonian aberration , from the name of the discoverer . ABETTOR , or ABBETTOR , in law , the person who ...
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... figure of speech , whereby the speaker stops short in the middle of his discourse : e . g . one of her age and beauty , to be seen alone , at such an hour , with a man of his character . I need say no more . ABSINTHIUM . See ARTEMISIA ...
... figure of speech , whereby the speaker stops short in the middle of his discourse : e . g . one of her age and beauty , to be seen alone , at such an hour , with a man of his character . I need say no more . ABSINTHIUM . See ARTEMISIA ...
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... figure of a man seated on a pedestal , with his ear ex- actly in the focus of the first mirror ; his lower jaw must be made to open by a wire , and shut by a spring . The wire C 2 ACOUSTICS . number, and too rapid in their return to the ...
... figure of a man seated on a pedestal , with his ear ex- actly in the focus of the first mirror ; his lower jaw must be made to open by a wire , and shut by a spring . The wire C 2 ACOUSTICS . number, and too rapid in their return to the ...
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... figure , and under the floor , to come up behind the partition . Let a person properly instructed be placed behind the partition , near the mirror ; any one may now whisper into the ear of the image , with the assurance of being an ...
... figure , and under the floor , to come up behind the partition . Let a person properly instructed be placed behind the partition , near the mirror ; any one may now whisper into the ear of the image , with the assurance of being an ...
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... figure , and the blast pro- ceeds from the mouth . AEOLUS'S harp , or EOLIAN harp , a musi- cal instrument so named from its producing an agreeable harmony merely by the action of the wind . See ACOUSTICS . ÆRA , a fixed point of time ...
... figure , and the blast pro- ceeds from the mouth . AEOLUS'S harp , or EOLIAN harp , a musi- cal instrument so named from its producing an agreeable harmony merely by the action of the wind . See ACOUSTICS . ÆRA , a fixed point of time ...
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