The Intellectual Rise in Electricity: A HistoryLongmans, Green & Company, 1895 - 611 páginas |
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... matter of fact the Idean Dactyls seem to have been merely a roving band of Phrygian miners , ' who carried 1 Prescott History of the Conquest of Mexico . 1865 , i . , 139 , and works there cited . Lyell , Sir C. The Geological Evidences ...
... matter of fact the Idean Dactyls seem to have been merely a roving band of Phrygian miners , ' who carried 1 Prescott History of the Conquest of Mexico . 1865 , i . , 139 , and works there cited . Lyell , Sir C. The Geological Evidences ...
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... matter of fact , Aristotle says nothing about the amber , and that he should have knowingly omitted men- tion of it in the passage above quoted is difficult to believe . On the other hand , while Plato , in the Timæus at a later period ...
... matter of fact , Aristotle says nothing about the amber , and that he should have knowingly omitted men- tion of it in the passage above quoted is difficult to believe . On the other hand , while Plato , in the Timæus at a later period ...
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... matter and man- ner of the affluxes of the terrestrial particles from which they are formed , and likewise they have " powers " of their concreted masses , which are different from their qualities of hardness , color , density , etc ...
... matter and man- ner of the affluxes of the terrestrial particles from which they are formed , and likewise they have " powers " of their concreted masses , which are different from their qualities of hardness , color , density , etc ...
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... and words were heaped on words , until all sight of the original subject - matter seemed to be lost . This continued until the end of the seventeenth century , when the tourmaline and its attractive effect , when heated , became known , ...
... and words were heaped on words , until all sight of the original subject - matter seemed to be lost . This continued until the end of the seventeenth century , when the tourmaline and its attractive effect , when heated , became known , ...
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... matter which reflects the circumambient air and thereby forms a void . That expelled air puts in mo- tion the air before it , which making a circle returns to the void space , driving before it towards the lodestone , the iron which it ...
... matter which reflects the circumambient air and thereby forms a void . That expelled air puts in mo- tion the air before it , which making a circle returns to the void space , driving before it towards the lodestone , the iron which it ...
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