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... tion of the experiment is in Sir David's own words : - " Upon examining with a fine prism of rock salt , with the largest possible re- fracting angle ( nearly 78 ° ) , the light of a lamp transmitted through a small thickness of nitrous ...
... tion of the experiment is in Sir David's own words : - " Upon examining with a fine prism of rock salt , with the largest possible re- fracting angle ( nearly 78 ° ) , the light of a lamp transmitted through a small thickness of nitrous ...
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... tion . Sir David then superposed the two spectra , when they were both formed of solar light ; and these exhibited at once the two series of lines , with all their coinci- dences and all their deviations . Professor Airey , the present ...
... tion . Sir David then superposed the two spectra , when they were both formed of solar light ; and these exhibited at once the two series of lines , with all their coinci- dences and all their deviations . Professor Airey , the present ...
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... tion that Bonapartism is dead in France , was on tiptoe to hear and to cheer him , Napoleon III . quoted an axiom from Mon- tesquieu , which is to this effect : - " That he who first draws the sword is not guilty of war , but he who ...
... tion that Bonapartism is dead in France , was on tiptoe to hear and to cheer him , Napoleon III . quoted an axiom from Mon- tesquieu , which is to this effect : - " That he who first draws the sword is not guilty of war , but he who ...
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... tion of war on July 19th , immediately King 6th , he made his famous declaration in the William refused to swallow the bitter pill of Corps Legislatif ; on the 8th , he was still binding himself never , at any time or in any without an ...
... tion of war on July 19th , immediately King 6th , he made his famous declaration in the William refused to swallow the bitter pill of Corps Legislatif ; on the 8th , he was still binding himself never , at any time or in any without an ...
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... tion with the Dahlgren shell - gun , which ren- dered great service to the Americans . Had the Admiral lived another ten years - such is the rapid advance we are making in all the implements of destruction --- he would have lived to see ...
... tion with the Dahlgren shell - gun , which ren- dered great service to the Americans . Had the Admiral lived another ten years - such is the rapid advance we are making in all the implements of destruction --- he would have lived to see ...
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