The Intellectual Rise in Electricity: A HistoryLongmans, Green & Company, 1895 - 611 páginas |
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... equally ignorant . ' The traditions of magnetic attraction , however , date from periods far earlier than the days of Nicander . The iron of antiquity was mined chiefly on the islands and coasts of the Ægean Sea , and on Elba and Crete ...
... equally ignorant . ' The traditions of magnetic attraction , however , date from periods far earlier than the days of Nicander . The iron of antiquity was mined chiefly on the islands and coasts of the Ægean Sea , and on Elba and Crete ...
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... equally well aware of the magnet and its attractive force . The famous Rabbi Mosheh ben Maimon ( Maimonides ) , who wrote at the end of the twelfth century , mentions not only an image of the sun , in the Babylonian Temple of Belus , as ...
... equally well aware of the magnet and its attractive force . The famous Rabbi Mosheh ben Maimon ( Maimonides ) , who wrote at the end of the twelfth century , mentions not only an image of the sun , in the Babylonian Temple of Belus , as ...
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... Equally were there no bounds to the theories which might be evolved to account for natural facts , provided each fact were fitted with its own theory , and the supernatural were open to constant invocation ; but when it came to ...
... Equally were there no bounds to the theories which might be evolved to account for natural facts , provided each fact were fitted with its own theory , and the supernatural were open to constant invocation ; but when it came to ...
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... equally eminent brother of Rome has scant mention of it in his great work on materia medica . 3 All that the civilized world had learned concerning the lodestone and the amber has now been in substance stated . It is briefly summed up ...
... equally eminent brother of Rome has scant mention of it in his great work on materia medica . 3 All that the civilized world had learned concerning the lodestone and the amber has now been in substance stated . It is briefly summed up ...
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... equally grave narration concerning men " with bodies of beasts and heads of bronze , who ate sand and in- vented arrows and frightened the world . " And the " Mirror of Chinese History , " whence I have transcribed the verbatim recital ...
... equally grave narration concerning men " with bodies of beasts and heads of bronze , who ate sand and in- vented arrows and frightened the world . " And the " Mirror of Chinese History , " whence I have transcribed the verbatim recital ...
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