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... cause to change your view , I feel affured well afford to avow it , without that dre leffer votaries conceal convictions on our flunkeyifm of sciolifts , but of thofe who homage . SIR , perfectly diftina it may , it is the To this ...
... cause to change your view , I feel affured well afford to avow it , without that dre leffer votaries conceal convictions on our flunkeyifm of sciolifts , but of thofe who homage . SIR , perfectly diftina it may , it is the To this ...
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... cause of the acceleration of Encke's comet , & c . , and a few numerical errors are corrected which have hitherto escaped notice and public comment as blemishes , —as for example , in some of the numbers in Art . 422. in the explanation ...
... cause of the acceleration of Encke's comet , & c . , and a few numerical errors are corrected which have hitherto escaped notice and public comment as blemishes , —as for example , in some of the numbers in Art . 422. in the explanation ...
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... cause of embarrassment , except in the most delicate inquiries , and to call for no further allusion in a treatise like the present . ( 42. ) A " Table of Refractions , " as it is called , or a state- ment of the amount of apparent ...
... cause of embarrassment , except in the most delicate inquiries , and to call for no further allusion in a treatise like the present . ( 42. ) A " Table of Refractions , " as it is called , or a state- ment of the amount of apparent ...
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... causes as the twilight . Were it not for the reflective and scattering power of the atmosphere , no objects would be ... cause . ( 46. ) From the explanation we have given , in arts . 39 and 40 , of the nature of atmospheric refraction ...
... causes as the twilight . Were it not for the reflective and scattering power of the atmosphere , no objects would be ... cause . ( 46. ) From the explanation we have given , in arts . 39 and 40 , of the nature of atmospheric refraction ...
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... cause of distortion shall act equally on both , ) manifest not the slightest perceptible va- riation . Not only this , but at whatever point of the earth's surface the measurement is performed , the results are abso- lutely identical ...
... cause of distortion shall act equally on both , ) manifest not the slightest perceptible va- riation . Not only this , but at whatever point of the earth's surface the measurement is performed , the results are abso- lutely identical ...
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