The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Volume 1Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1840 |
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... blind , in his thirty - seventh year , while observing the satellites of Jupiter , and died a few days after . TORRICELLI , whose famous discovery of the barometer we have already mentioned , and who had de- servedly acquired the ...
... blind , in his thirty - seventh year , while observing the satellites of Jupiter , and died a few days after . TORRICELLI , whose famous discovery of the barometer we have already mentioned , and who had de- servedly acquired the ...
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... blind . For the person who brought them to me , a Jew , from Sici- ly , is to leave this in twenty days . Wherefore , until I shall have extricated myself from these manuscripts , do not expect a line from me ; for I cannot leave them ...
... blind . For the person who brought them to me , a Jew , from Sici- ly , is to leave this in twenty days . Wherefore , until I shall have extricated myself from these manuscripts , do not expect a line from me ; for I cannot leave them ...
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... blind person who was travelling thither , on condition that the latter would pay the expenses of both ; and , in this way , after a journey of above four hundred miles , on foot , he arrived among those monu- ments of ancient and modern ...
... blind person who was travelling thither , on condition that the latter would pay the expenses of both ; and , in this way , after a journey of above four hundred miles , on foot , he arrived among those monu- ments of ancient and modern ...
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... blind men , this faculty is almost always powerful . Not having the same opportunities , which others enjoy , of fre- quent or long - continued observation , in regard to things with which they wish to make themselves acquainted , or of ...
... blind men , this faculty is almost always powerful . Not having the same opportunities , which others enjoy , of fre- quent or long - continued observation , in regard to things with which they wish to make themselves acquainted , or of ...
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... blind almost from his birth , should be able to explain the phenomena , and expound the doctrines , of light . The disadvantage under which Saunderson labored here , how- ever , was merely that he did not know , experimentally , the ...
... blind almost from his birth , should be able to explain the phenomena , and expound the doctrines , of light . The disadvantage under which Saunderson labored here , how- ever , was merely that he did not know , experimentally , the ...
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