The Encyclopedia Americana: A Universal Reference Library Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., of the World, Volume 3Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines Scientific American Compiling Department, 1903 |
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... obtained a position in the Paris Observatory . He is celebrated for his researches in the theory of planetary motions , especially those of Jupiter and Saturn . Later he took up the theory of Uranus , and was the first to suggest that ...
... obtained a position in the Paris Observatory . He is celebrated for his researches in the theory of planetary motions , especially those of Jupiter and Saturn . Later he took up the theory of Uranus , and was the first to suggest that ...
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... obtained by Condamine from South American savages produced instan- taneous death in animals inoculated with it . The poisoned arrows used in Guiana are not shot from a bow , but blown through a tube . See AIR - GUN ; also ARCHERY . In ...
... obtained by Condamine from South American savages produced instan- taneous death in animals inoculated with it . The poisoned arrows used in Guiana are not shot from a bow , but blown through a tube . See AIR - GUN ; also ARCHERY . In ...
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... obtained the office of printer of the votes of the House of Commons , which he held nearly 50 years . He was subsequently appointed prin- ter to the Society for the Encouragement of Learning , the Society of Antiquarians , of which ...
... obtained the office of printer of the votes of the House of Commons , which he held nearly 50 years . He was subsequently appointed prin- ter to the Society for the Encouragement of Learning , the Society of Antiquarians , of which ...
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... obtained the degree of Master of Surgery in 1787. He became successively surgeon to the Hospital de la Charité and to the Hôtel - Dieu , and was appointed first surgeon to Napoleon , receiving at the same time the title of baron of the ...
... obtained the degree of Master of Surgery in 1787. He became successively surgeon to the Hospital de la Charité and to the Hôtel - Dieu , and was appointed first surgeon to Napoleon , receiving at the same time the title of baron of the ...
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... obtained . The state of he esteemed observation the only road to truth He attributed to matter merely mechanica Ireland at that time having rendered land very cheap , he took advantage of the circumstance properties . Every year of his ...
... obtained . The state of he esteemed observation the only road to truth He attributed to matter merely mechanica Ireland at that time having rendered land very cheap , he took advantage of the circumstance properties . Every year of his ...
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