The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1861 |
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Pagina 32 - ... from a scientific as well as from a practical point of view. It is a...
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Pagina 341 - FUNGI. Outlines of British Fungology, containing Characters of above a Thousand Species of Fungi, and a Complete List of all that have been described as Natives of the British Isles. By the Rev. MJ BERKELEY, MA, FLS Demy 8vo, 24 Coloured Plates, 30».
Pagina 423 - Revised and edited, with a List of Foreign Words defined in English, and other additions, by BARNAS SEARS, DD, President of Brown University.
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Pagina 129 - Returning once more to the definition of the gravitating power as " a simple attractive force exerted between any two or all the particles or masses of matter at every sensible distance, but with a strength varying inversely as the square of the distance...