British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 10Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1821 |
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... effects , with the various affections , motions , and ope- rations . Experimental physics inquire into the reasons and nature of things by experiments , as in hydrostatics , pneuma- tics , optics , & c . but more particularly in ...
... effects , with the various affections , motions , and ope- rations . Experimental physics inquire into the reasons and nature of things by experiments , as in hydrostatics , pneuma- tics , optics , & c . but more particularly in ...
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... effects of cold , is accounted for by that very circumstance ; and it ap- pears probable , that their high cheek- bones , and small imperfect eyes , are so contrived , to preserve the latter from the piercing effects of the wind , and ...
... effects of cold , is accounted for by that very circumstance ; and it ap- pears probable , that their high cheek- bones , and small imperfect eyes , are so contrived , to preserve the latter from the piercing effects of the wind , and ...
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... effect as to be only visible with a clear de- scending light ; and all the outlines should be composed of such , that if the section of one - third only is observed , it would be difficult to decide whether they were cir- cular or ...
... effect as to be only visible with a clear de- scending light ; and all the outlines should be composed of such , that if the section of one - third only is observed , it would be difficult to decide whether they were cir- cular or ...
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... effect of the action of air , moisture , and heat , that is , of all the surrounding external agents , on the dead ... effects , referable to peculiar powers , which are justly called living or vital , because the actions of the living ...
... effect of the action of air , moisture , and heat , that is , of all the surrounding external agents , on the dead ... effects , referable to peculiar powers , which are justly called living or vital , because the actions of the living ...
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... effect . Yet the energy and power of the vital force is most clearly evinced in resisting and overcoming , as we have already stated , the common laws of mat- ter . Stahl and his followers were so struck with the circumstance of living ...
... effect . Yet the energy and power of the vital force is most clearly evinced in resisting and overcoming , as we have already stated , the common laws of mat- ter . Stahl and his followers were so struck with the circumstance of living ...
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