American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 11Mitchell, Ames and White, 1821 - Natural history |
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... opening at pleasure the cavities at the extremities . SALSOLA , in botany , salt - wort , a genus of the Pentandria Digynia class and or- der . Natural order of Holoraceæ . Atri- plices , Jussieu . Essential character : ca- lyx five ...
... opening at pleasure the cavities at the extremities . SALSOLA , in botany , salt - wort , a genus of the Pentandria Digynia class and or- der . Natural order of Holoraceæ . Atri- plices , Jussieu . Essential character : ca- lyx five ...
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... opening , and supposed him to have been the only person who ever saw a sight so rare , as the opening , though cer- tainly very large , appears very small to us . When Saturn appears round , if our eye be in the plane of the ring , it ...
... opening , and supposed him to have been the only person who ever saw a sight so rare , as the opening , though cer- tainly very large , appears very small to us . When Saturn appears round , if our eye be in the plane of the ring , it ...
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... opening a school for him at London . Accordingly he went to Cambridge in 1707 , being then twenty - five years of age , and his fame in a short time filled the University . Newton's Principia , Optics , and Universal Arithmetic , were ...
... opening a school for him at London . Accordingly he went to Cambridge in 1707 , being then twenty - five years of age , and his fame in a short time filled the University . Newton's Principia , Optics , and Universal Arithmetic , were ...
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... opening their com- passes to the widest distance , these two pieces stand from each other , they bear the point of one of the legs against the side they intend to scribe to , and with the other point draw a line on the stuff to be ...
... opening their com- passes to the widest distance , these two pieces stand from each other , they bear the point of one of the legs against the side they intend to scribe to , and with the other point draw a line on the stuff to be ...
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... opening of the skull down the hollow of the back - bone . The substance contained in the hollow of the backbone is the same with that in the cavities of the skull ; and it is sometimes convenient to comprehend both the por- tions under ...
... opening of the skull down the hollow of the back - bone . The substance contained in the hollow of the backbone is the same with that in the cavities of the skull ; and it is sometimes convenient to comprehend both the por- tions under ...
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