The Gallery of Nature; a Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through Creation, Illustrative of the Wonders of Astronmy, Physical Geography, and Geology |
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... greater body around the less , when precisely the same effects are produceable by moving the less about the greater , our common sense is at once enlisted in favour of the latter hypothesis as Nature's " wise and frugal " plan . The ...
... greater body around the less , when precisely the same effects are produceable by moving the less about the greater , our common sense is at once enlisted in favour of the latter hypothesis as Nature's " wise and frugal " plan . The ...
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... greater fury , and meeting at right angles with the ocean current that runs from Cape St. Roque along the north - east coast of Brazil , the shock of these two bodies raises their waters into an embankment , upwards of a hundred feet in ...
... greater fury , and meeting at right angles with the ocean current that runs from Cape St. Roque along the north - east coast of Brazil , the shock of these two bodies raises their waters into an embankment , upwards of a hundred feet in ...
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... greater than the superficial shell . Second , that this heat augments progressively as we descend towards this region , in a ratio bearing some relation to the depth . Third , that , even at moderate depths , this heat is greater than ...
... greater than the superficial shell . Second , that this heat augments progressively as we descend towards this region , in a ratio bearing some relation to the depth . Third , that , even at moderate depths , this heat is greater than ...
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Illustrated TitleAstronomy | 14 |
Sycne near Alexandria | 89 |
Translation of the Earth in space | 159 |
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