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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... astronomy , a star of the first magnitude , called in English the Bull's eye , as making the eye of the constel- lation Taurus . ALDER - tree , the English name of a ge- nus of trees , called by botanists alnus . See ALNUS . ALDERMAN ...
... astronomy , a star of the first magnitude , called in English the Bull's eye , as making the eye of the constel- lation Taurus . ALDER - tree , the English name of a ge- nus of trees , called by botanists alnus . See ALNUS . ALDERMAN ...
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... astronomy , mathematics , and natural philosophy ; of which his pane- gyrist , Condorcet , gives a particular account , more especially of those which exhibit new subjects , or new methods of investigation . He published also " Elements ...
... astronomy , mathematics , and natural philosophy ; of which his pane- gyrist , Condorcet , gives a particular account , more especially of those which exhibit new subjects , or new methods of investigation . He published also " Elements ...
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... astronomy ; but especially the latter . And being the first work of this kind which has come down to us , and con ... astronomer in the beginning of the ninth century , he having ascended the throne in the year 814. He was son of Harun ...
... astronomy ; but especially the latter . And being the first work of this kind which has come down to us , and con ... astronomer in the beginning of the ninth century , he having ascended the throne in the year 814. He was son of Harun ...
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... astronomers that he could find to com- pose a body of astronomical science , which still subsists among oriental MSS . entitled , " Astronomia elaborata à compluribus D.D. jussu regis Maimon . " ALMANAC , in matters of literature , a ...
... astronomers that he could find to com- pose a body of astronomical science , which still subsists among oriental MSS . entitled , " Astronomia elaborata à compluribus D.D. jussu regis Maimon . " ALMANAC , in matters of literature , a ...
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... astronomical ephemeris , is a kind of national almanac , published annually by anticipation , under the direction of the ... astronomy , an Arabic word denoting circles of the sphere passing through the centre of the sun , or a star ...
... astronomical ephemeris , is a kind of national almanac , published annually by anticipation , under the direction of the ... astronomy , an Arabic word denoting circles of the sphere passing through the centre of the sun , or a star ...
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