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... follow by those who string them . This is no fault of those who have con- ducted the inquiries to which we allude . The contention of mind for which they call is enormous ; and it may , perhaps , be owing to their experience of how ...
... follow by those who string them . This is no fault of those who have con- ducted the inquiries to which we allude . The contention of mind for which they call is enormous ; and it may , perhaps , be owing to their experience of how ...
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... follow that all the movements we think we perceive among the stars will not be real movements , but that some part , at least , of whatever changes of relative place we per- ceive among them must be merely apparent , the results of the ...
... follow that all the movements we think we perceive among the stars will not be real movements , but that some part , at least , of whatever changes of relative place we per- ceive among them must be merely apparent , the results of the ...
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... follow objects to a greater distance , or from at- mospheric indistinctness . It will be worth while to pursue the general notion thus acquired into some of its consequences , by which its consistency with observations of a different ...
... follow objects to a greater distance , or from at- mospheric indistinctness . It will be worth while to pursue the general notion thus acquired into some of its consequences , by which its consistency with observations of a different ...
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... follows , that if we would construct a correct model of our earth , with its seas , continents , and mountains , on a globe sixteen inches in diameter , the whole of the land , with the exception of a few prominent points and ridges ...
... follows , that if we would construct a correct model of our earth , with its seas , continents , and mountains , on a globe sixteen inches in diameter , the whole of the land , with the exception of a few prominent points and ridges ...
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... follows , that when we see the lower edge of the sun or moon just apparently resting on the horizon , its whole disk is in reality below it , and would be entirely out of sight and concealed by the convexity of the earth , but for the ...
... follows , that when we see the lower edge of the sun or moon just apparently resting on the horizon , its whole disk is in reality below it , and would be entirely out of sight and concealed by the convexity of the earth , but for the ...
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