The Intellectual Rise in Electricity: A HistoryLongmans, Green & Company, 1895 - 611 páginas |
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... seems necessarily to have followed the advent of an Iron Age , and therefore may not extend indefinitely back into prehistoric times . On the other hand , with regard to the directive tendency of the lodestone a different conclusion is ...
... seems necessarily to have followed the advent of an Iron Age , and therefore may not extend indefinitely back into prehistoric times . On the other hand , with regard to the directive tendency of the lodestone a different conclusion is ...
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... 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 of the Antiquity of Man . London ...
... 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 of the Antiquity of Man . London ...
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... seems to have attained its greatest vigor , however , at Samothrace , and ultimately to have spread to Macedonia and Phoenicia . It possessed great vitality , since as late as the fourth cen- tury of our era it was in a flourishing ...
... seems to have attained its greatest vigor , however , at Samothrace , and ultimately to have spread to Macedonia and Phoenicia . It possessed great vitality , since as late as the fourth cen- tury of our era it was in a flourishing ...
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... seems to be without trustworthy foundation . No legends of magnetic rocks or mountains on Egyptian ter- ritory have been encountered . But one Egyptian iron mine shows any signs of having been anciently worked , and , there the ore is ...
... seems to be without trustworthy foundation . No legends of magnetic rocks or mountains on Egyptian ter- ritory have been encountered . But one Egyptian iron mine shows any signs of having been anciently worked , and , there the ore is ...
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... seem to hold that , while the use of iron in Pharaonic times was at best rare and occasional , neverthe- less the metal was not wholly unknown , and may have been brought into the country from Phoenicia , in a manu- factured state . In ...
... seem to hold that , while the use of iron in Pharaonic times was at best rare and occasional , neverthe- less the metal was not wholly unknown , and may have been brought into the country from Phoenicia , in a manu- factured state . In ...
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