The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Volume 19A. and C. Black, 1835 |
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... produced by Cilia , as a general Phenomenon in Reptiles , Birds , and Mammiferous Animals . By Professor PURKINJE and Dr VALENTIN , of Breslaw , 114 118 Parts of the Body , and Classes of Animals , in which the Vibratory Motions exist ...
... produced by Cilia , as a general Phenomenon in Reptiles , Birds , and Mammiferous Animals . By Professor PURKINJE and Dr VALENTIN , of Breslaw , 114 118 Parts of the Body , and Classes of Animals , in which the Vibratory Motions exist ...
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... sun . This con- densation could not fail to produce in the star a brightness su- perior to that which without this change it could have main- tained . the visibility of a comet does not depend , or 2 M. Arago on the Light of Comets . 27.
... sun . This con- densation could not fail to produce in the star a brightness su- perior to that which without this change it could have main- tained . the visibility of a comet does not depend , or 2 M. Arago on the Light of Comets . 27.
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... produced by a pressure of only one or two atmospheres , in the case of air , are quantities very large in proportion to the primitive volume , so that , in the consideration of an additional change , we are obliged to take into account ...
... produced by a pressure of only one or two atmospheres , in the case of air , are quantities very large in proportion to the primitive volume , so that , in the consideration of an additional change , we are obliged to take into account ...
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... produces a great saving as compared with the English railways . It has also been ascertained that one ton of this splint coal produces as much steam as the same weight of coke . Moreover , there is a great saving of the tubes in the ...
... produces a great saving as compared with the English railways . It has also been ascertained that one ton of this splint coal produces as much steam as the same weight of coke . Moreover , there is a great saving of the tubes in the ...
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... produced the principal mountain - chains of our continents have no connexion with such causes . In fact , the ... produce , in the solid external crust of the earth , inequa- lities disposed more or less symmetrically round one point ...
... produced the principal mountain - chains of our continents have no connexion with such causes . In fact , the ... produce , in the solid external crust of the earth , inequa- lities disposed more or less symmetrically round one point ...
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