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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... Hence it Nitrate of lime , the calcareous nitre of older writers , abounds in the mortar of old buildings , particularly those that have been much exposed to animal effluvia , or pro- cesses in which azote is set free . abounds in nitre ...
... Hence it Nitrate of lime , the calcareous nitre of older writers , abounds in the mortar of old buildings , particularly those that have been much exposed to animal effluvia , or pro- cesses in which azote is set free . abounds in nitre ...
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... Hence a thing is said to be numeri- cally the same , when it is so in the strictest sense of the word . NUMIDIA , the PINTADO , or guinea- hen , in natural history , a genus of birds of the order Gallinæ . Generic character : bill ...
... Hence a thing is said to be numeri- cally the same , when it is so in the strictest sense of the word . NUMIDIA , the PINTADO , or guinea- hen , in natural history , a genus of birds of the order Gallinæ . Generic character : bill ...
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... Hence some twenty years ago a person exhibited in London , as the everlasting lamp of the ancients , a vessel containing phosphorus immersed in oil . The various purposes to which fixed oils are applied , are too well known to require ...
... Hence some twenty years ago a person exhibited in London , as the everlasting lamp of the ancients , a vessel containing phosphorus immersed in oil . The various purposes to which fixed oils are applied , are too well known to require ...
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... Hence cork , paper , wood , & c . are opaque ; while glass , diamonds , & c . are pellucid . For in the confines or joining of parts alike in density , such as those of glass , water , diamonds , & c . among themselves , no refraction ...
... Hence cork , paper , wood , & c . are opaque ; while glass , diamonds , & c . are pellucid . For in the confines or joining of parts alike in density , such as those of glass , water , diamonds , & c . among themselves , no refraction ...
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... hence he deduced several pro- perties of atmospherical refraction , such as , that it increases the altitudes of all objects in the heavens ; and he first advanced that the stars are sometimes seen above the ho- rizon by means of ...
... hence he deduced several pro- perties of atmospherical refraction , such as , that it increases the altitudes of all objects in the heavens ; and he first advanced that the stars are sometimes seen above the ho- rizon by means of ...
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