Outlines of AstronomyLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, 1851 - 661 sider |
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... and logical argument , even should it prove of a nature adverse to notions he may have previously formed for himself , or taken up , without examination , on the credit of B As a others . Such an effort is , in fact , INTRODUCTION.
... and logical argument , even should it prove of a nature adverse to notions he may have previously formed for himself , or taken up , without examination , on the credit of B As a others . Such an effort is , in fact , INTRODUCTION.
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... nature . 66 ( 2. ) There is no science which , more than astronomy , stands in need of such a preparation , or draws more largely on that intellectual liberality which is ready to adopt what- ever is demonstrated , or concede whatever ...
... nature . 66 ( 2. ) There is no science which , more than astronomy , stands in need of such a preparation , or draws more largely on that intellectual liberality which is ready to adopt what- ever is demonstrated , or concede whatever ...
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... nature , or have lost their ori- ginal meaning as such to his mind : he has not seen , as it were , the process of nature passing under his eye in an in- stant of time , and presented as a consecutive whole to his imagination . A ...
... nature , or have lost their ori- ginal meaning as such to his mind : he has not seen , as it were , the process of nature passing under his eye in an in- stant of time , and presented as a consecutive whole to his imagination . A ...
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... nature among things apparently so different . For what , in fact , can be more apparently different than the vast and seemingly immeasurable extent of the earth , and the stars , which appear but as points , and seem to have no size at ...
... nature among things apparently so different . For what , in fact , can be more apparently different than the vast and seemingly immeasurable extent of the earth , and the stars , which appear but as points , and seem to have no size at ...
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... nature that motion is . The apparent places of a number of objects , and their apparent arrangement with respect to each other , will of course be materially dependent on the situation of the spectator among them ; and if this situation ...
... nature that motion is . The apparent places of a number of objects , and their apparent arrangement with respect to each other , will of course be materially dependent on the situation of the spectator among them ; and if this situation ...
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Outlines of Astronomy John Frederick William Herschel,Sir John Frederick William Herschel Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1851 |
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