The Quarterly Journal of Science, 3권John Churchill and Sons, 1866 |
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... Objects below were unusually refracted ; two brigantines , which were at a considerable distance , presented inverted images of some of their parts ; but what was very singular , they appeared to alter their form as I changed my ...
... Objects below were unusually refracted ; two brigantines , which were at a considerable distance , presented inverted images of some of their parts ; but what was very singular , they appeared to alter their form as I changed my ...
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... objects were very indistinct . Towards the middle of the day , or the beginning of the afternoon , and when the difference between the dry and wet bulb thermometer was less than usual , the island of Palma , nearly sixty miles distant ...
... objects were very indistinct . Towards the middle of the day , or the beginning of the afternoon , and when the difference between the dry and wet bulb thermometer was less than usual , the island of Palma , nearly sixty miles distant ...
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... object in these addresses was to show the connection between unconformity and the partial or complete change of marine faunas during times unrepresented by strata , and in discuss- ing the question whether ( as had been asserted ) a ...
... object in these addresses was to show the connection between unconformity and the partial or complete change of marine faunas during times unrepresented by strata , and in discuss- ing the question whether ( as had been asserted ) a ...
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... object , we often spend hours in the vain attempt to do so ; but let the pieces once be put together by hands that are in the secret , and the cross presented to us entire , and give us then the opportunity of carefully and observantly ...
... object , we often spend hours in the vain attempt to do so ; but let the pieces once be put together by hands that are in the secret , and the cross presented to us entire , and give us then the opportunity of carefully and observantly ...
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... objects of its principal members . We have heard or read somewhere , that if a number of young men , with some small share of ability , were to unite together and form a society , one of the leading rules of which should be to lose no ...
... objects of its principal members . We have heard or read somewhere , that if a number of young men , with some small share of ability , were to unite together and form a society , one of the leading rules of which should be to lose no ...
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