The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Том 37A. and C. Black, 1844 |
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... inch in diameter , or under that , to 1 이이이 of an inch , or more ; and transmitting , like particles of soot , a brownish light . Having the properties of soot , must it not be inferred that the matter of this film is soot in reality ...
... inch in diameter , or under that , to 1 이이이 of an inch , or more ; and transmitting , like particles of soot , a brownish light . Having the properties of soot , must it not be inferred that the matter of this film is soot in reality ...
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... inch to one side , the deviation would be proportion- ally as great as that which the lunar nutation produces in the terrestrial axis . The earth's equatorial diameter exceeds , I have said , the polar only by a 300th part . The moon's ...
... inch to one side , the deviation would be proportion- ally as great as that which the lunar nutation produces in the terrestrial axis . The earth's equatorial diameter exceeds , I have said , the polar only by a 300th part . The moon's ...
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... inches high in the centre : the crown or central part , which may be reckoned two feet across , is evenly rounded , and the sides are channelled : the whole of the crown is crowded with strongly marked wrinkles , which pass off into the ...
... inches high in the centre : the crown or central part , which may be reckoned two feet across , is evenly rounded , and the sides are channelled : the whole of the crown is crowded with strongly marked wrinkles , which pass off into the ...
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... inches from the centre of the fossil , and one at three feet ; in this , as in the other instance , they are all broken off short . " * But the branches - what connection have they with the specimen upon which they rest ? This is a ...
... inches from the centre of the fossil , and one at three feet ; in this , as in the other instance , they are all broken off short . " * But the branches - what connection have they with the specimen upon which they rest ? This is a ...
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... inches across in the compressed state . An idea may be formed of the dimensions which some Stigmarias attain , from the statement communicated to me by the head wasteman of Felling pit , that he has traced the impression of a single ...
... inches across in the compressed state . An idea may be formed of the dimensions which some Stigmarias attain , from the statement communicated to me by the head wasteman of Felling pit , that he has traced the impression of a single ...
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