The Intellectual Rise in Electricity: A HistoryLongmans, Green & Company, 1895 - 611 páginas |
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... treatises of the Fathers of the Church , the works of medieval monks , magicians , cosmographers and navigators , the early poetry of modern France and Italy ; these , mentioned at random , are some of the sources which have been drawn ...
... treatises of the Fathers of the Church , the works of medieval monks , magicians , cosmographers and navigators , the early poetry of modern France and Italy ; these , mentioned at random , are some of the sources which have been drawn ...
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... treatise de Natura Rerum The doctrine of similitudes . And of virtues . . Applied to the lodestone . The first European description of the Mariner's Compass And the remarkable magnetic discoveries preceding . The Compass points ...
... treatise de Natura Rerum The doctrine of similitudes . And of virtues . . Applied to the lodestone . The first European description of the Mariner's Compass And the remarkable magnetic discoveries preceding . The Compass points ...
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... treatises on the magnet . Cesare observes magnetism by earth's induction . The Jesuits dispute Sarpi's discoveries . 225 227 228 · John Baptista Porta . • · 230 His Society . 231 His relations to Sarpi 232 His treatise on natural magic ...
... treatises on the magnet . Cesare observes magnetism by earth's induction . The Jesuits dispute Sarpi's discoveries . 225 227 228 · John Baptista Porta . • · 230 His Society . 231 His relations to Sarpi 232 His treatise on natural magic ...
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... treatises on mining we find them still depicted as dwarfs with their picks and shovels and attended by their dogs , searching for the metals in the depths of the earth . Even so skillful a miner as George Agricola , ' whose great work ...
... treatises on mining we find them still depicted as dwarfs with their picks and shovels and attended by their dogs , searching for the metals in the depths of the earth . Even so skillful a miner as George Agricola , ' whose great work ...
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... treatises on natural sciences . Second , the foreshadowing of the inductive method of reasoning . Third , the production by Theophrastus , the Lesbian , of a history of stones , probably based directly upon the study of Aristotle's ...
... treatises on natural sciences . Second , the foreshadowing of the inductive method of reasoning . Third , the production by Theophrastus , the Lesbian , of a history of stones , probably based directly upon the study of Aristotle's ...
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