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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... muscular exertion , effect its progress in any direction at pleasure . This is one of the methods of artificial flying ... muscles of the breast and arms of a man , finds the latter altogether insufficient to produce , by means of any ...
... muscular exertion , effect its progress in any direction at pleasure . This is one of the methods of artificial flying ... muscles of the breast and arms of a man , finds the latter altogether insufficient to produce , by means of any ...
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... muscular and fleshy ; and it has no craw , but a moderate dilatation of the lower part of the œsophagus , and its cœca are very small . It lives ten or twelve years . The males are distinguished from the females by their larger sizę ...
... muscular and fleshy ; and it has no craw , but a moderate dilatation of the lower part of the œsophagus , and its cœca are very small . It lives ten or twelve years . The males are distinguished from the females by their larger sizę ...
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... muscles are converted by nitric acid , and which makes its appearance when dead bodies are allow- ed to putrefy in great numbers together . This substance has been distinguished by the name of adipocire , from its resemblance both to ...
... muscles are converted by nitric acid , and which makes its appearance when dead bodies are allow- ed to putrefy in great numbers together . This substance has been distinguished by the name of adipocire , from its resemblance both to ...
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... muscles which lie under the skin . A collection of anatomical drawings made by Leonardo da Vinci at this period is still extant , and , with subjoined ' explanations , are found in the library of the king . Dr. Hunter bears witness to ...
... muscles which lie under the skin . A collection of anatomical drawings made by Leonardo da Vinci at this period is still extant , and , with subjoined ' explanations , are found in the library of the king . Dr. Hunter bears witness to ...
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... muscles have been most ele- gantly represented and described by Albi- nus , Cheselden , Sue , and Cowper . The vascular system has been illustrated by a splendid work of the immortal Haller . Walker and Meckel of Berlin , and Scarpa at ...
... muscles have been most ele- gantly represented and described by Albi- nus , Cheselden , Sue , and Cowper . The vascular system has been illustrated by a splendid work of the immortal Haller . Walker and Meckel of Berlin , and Scarpa at ...
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