The Intellectual Rise in Electricity: A HistoryLongmans, Green & Company, 1895 - 611 páginas |
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... describes the famous rings : " The gift which you have of speaking excellently about Homer , is not an art , " says the sage , " but , as I was just saying , an inspiration : there is a divinity moving you , like that in the stone which ...
... describes the famous rings : " The gift which you have of speaking excellently about Homer , is not an art , " says the sage , " but , as I was just saying , an inspiration : there is a divinity moving you , like that in the stone which ...
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... describes , first , his prediction of an eclipse of the sun which brought to a sudden end one of the interminable series of battles which the Lydians and Medes were waging , and also that when the advance of the army of Croesus was ...
... describes , first , his prediction of an eclipse of the sun which brought to a sudden end one of the interminable series of battles which the Lydians and Medes were waging , and also that when the advance of the army of Croesus was ...
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... describes what he calls the stones and the earths , in contradistinction to the metals ; the first , as he supposed , being derived from the earth itself , and the last from water . He refers not merely to stones indigenous to Greece ...
... describes what he calls the stones and the earths , in contradistinction to the metals ; the first , as he supposed , being derived from the earth itself , and the last from water . He refers not merely to stones indigenous to Greece ...
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... describes this as used by engravers as the emerald is used , and that it has a very solid texture , in confirmation of which , and also of the statement of the identity of its attractive quality with that of amber , he appeals to ...
... describes this as used by engravers as the emerald is used , and that it has a very solid texture , in confirmation of which , and also of the statement of the identity of its attractive quality with that of amber , he appeals to ...
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... describes it as " black , light , dry and lucid , not transparent , and if put into fire has , as it were , the smell of pitch . Being heated with rubbing it attracts straws and chaff . " Marbodeus gives almost the same account and ...
... describes it as " black , light , dry and lucid , not transparent , and if put into fire has , as it were , the smell of pitch . Being heated with rubbing it attracts straws and chaff . " Marbodeus gives almost the same account and ...
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