A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and Derivations of the Scientific Terms in General Use, Together with the History and Descriptions of the Scientific Principles of Nearly Every Branch of Human Knowledge, Volume 3William Thomas Brande, George William Cox Longmans, Green, and Company, 1875 |
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... printing . Of these the most impor- tant are : 1. The Complutensian , or edition of Cardinal Ximenes , printed at Alcalá in Spain , Polygastria ( Gr . woλús , and yaσrhp , a 1515 , in four languages , comprehended in six stomach ) . The ...
... printing . Of these the most impor- tant are : 1. The Complutensian , or edition of Cardinal Ximenes , printed at Alcalá in Spain , Polygastria ( Gr . woλús , and yaσrhp , a 1515 , in four languages , comprehended in six stomach ) . The ...
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... printed . Very little improvement in the construction of this instrument took place from the first introduction of the art of printing into Europe till the late Earl Stanhope intro- duced his press . The old press was made of wood ...
... printed . Very little improvement in the construction of this instrument took place from the first introduction of the art of printing into Europe till the late Earl Stanhope intro- duced his press . The old press was made of wood ...
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... Printing , a good im- pression of a sheet by which it is read over carefully before being printed off . Pressirosters ( Lat . pressus , flattened ; rostrum , a beak ) . A tribe of wading birds , including those which have a flattened or ...
... Printing , a good im- pression of a sheet by which it is read over carefully before being printed off . Pressirosters ( Lat . pressus , flattened ; rostrum , a beak ) . A tribe of wading birds , including those which have a flattened or ...
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... . The rightful claimant of the name , strange to say , is the daisy . ( Prior , Names of British Plants . ) The common Primrose is the Primula vulgaris of botanists . This primitive mode of printing is continued to the present 59.
... . The rightful claimant of the name , strange to say , is the daisy . ( Prior , Names of British Plants . ) The common Primrose is the Primula vulgaris of botanists . This primitive mode of printing is continued to the present 59.
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... Through any point o of a solid body or system of material particles , three mutually rectangular lines can be so drawn that , when chosen as coordinate axes , the sums Σmyz , PRINTING PRINCIPAL NORMAL Inzz , Emry , extended to all 60.
... Through any point o of a solid body or system of material particles , three mutually rectangular lines can be so drawn that , when chosen as coordinate axes , the sums Σmyz , PRINTING PRINCIPAL NORMAL Inzz , Emry , extended to all 60.
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