Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, Volum 1H.G. Bohn, 1864 |
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Side x
... determination of genera and species , leads the observer who traverses distant lands and lofty mountains to the study of the geographical distribution of plants over the earth's surface , according to distance from the equator and ...
... determination of genera and species , leads the observer who traverses distant lands and lofty mountains to the study of the geographical distribution of plants over the earth's surface , according to distance from the equator and ...
Side xxi
... determined the distribution of solids and fluids into continents and seas . Individual configuration of solids into hori- zontal expansion and vertical elevation . Relations of area . Articu- lation . Probability of the continued ...
... determined the distribution of solids and fluids into continents and seas . Individual configuration of solids into hori- zontal expansion and vertical elevation . Relations of area . Articu- lation . Probability of the continued ...
Side xxi
... determining their relative ages . Attempts to deter- mine the centre of gravity of the volume of the lands upheaved above the level of the sea . The elevation of continents is still progressing slowly , and is being compensated for at ...
... determining their relative ages . Attempts to deter- mine the centre of gravity of the volume of the lands upheaved above the level of the sea . The elevation of continents is still progressing slowly , and is being compensated for at ...
Side xxi
... Determination of the changes in the mean annual and summer temperature , which correspond to one degree of geographical ... determined so much by the predominance of separate families in certain parallels of latitude as by the highly ...
... Determination of the changes in the mean annual and summer temperature , which correspond to one degree of geographical ... determined so much by the predominance of separate families in certain parallels of latitude as by the highly ...
Side 3
... determine with impartial justice what is due to the discoveries of the past and to those of the present , and to analyze the individual parts of natural phenomena without succumbing beneath the weight of the whole . ] Thus , and thus ...
... determine with impartial justice what is due to the discoveries of the past and to those of the present , and to analyze the individual parts of natural phenomena without succumbing beneath the weight of the whole . ] Thus , and thus ...
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