Light Science for Leisure Hours, a Series of Familiar Essays on Scientific Subjects Natural Phenomena EtcLongmans, Green, and Company, 1871 - 316 páginas |
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... enormous elevation above the earth ? All these views have from time to time found sup- porters among scientific men . It need hardly be said that what we now know of the association between auro- ral action and some form of solar ...
... enormous elevation above the earth ? All these views have from time to time found sup- porters among scientific men . It need hardly be said that what we now know of the association between auro- ral action and some form of solar ...
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... enormous variety of configuration and of structure which they present to our contemplation , render them not merely amazing , but altogether unintelligible . Now there is one feature of comets ' tails which has . long since attracted ...
... enormous variety of configuration and of structure which they present to our contemplation , render them not merely amazing , but altogether unintelligible . Now there is one feature of comets ' tails which has . long since attracted ...
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... enormous difficulty . When a surveyor has to determine the distance of an inaccessible object , he proceeds in the following manner : —He first very carefully measures a base - line of convenient length . Then from either end of the ...
... enormous difficulty . When a surveyor has to determine the distance of an inaccessible object , he proceeds in the following manner : —He first very carefully measures a base - line of convenient length . Then from either end of the ...
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... enormously the uncertainty of the result would be increased by such an arrangement as this ? One observer would have his own peculiar powers of obser- vation , his own peculiar weaknesses ; the other would have different peculiarities ...
... enormously the uncertainty of the result would be increased by such an arrangement as this ? One observer would have his own peculiar powers of obser- vation , his own peculiar weaknesses ; the other would have different peculiarities ...
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... enormous . The sun's distance came out some four millions of miles too large , and that seems no trifling error . Then , again , the resulting estimate of the dis- tance of Neptune came out more than a hundred million miles too great ...
... enormous . The sun's distance came out some four millions of miles too large , and that seems no trifling error . Then , again , the resulting estimate of the dis- tance of Neptune came out more than a hundred million miles too great ...
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