The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtCharles W. Vincent, James Mason Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1844 |
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... NATURAL PHILOSOPHY ; ELECTRICITY ; CHEMISTRY ; ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY ; GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY ; METEOROLOGY AND ASTRONOMY . Ellustrated with Engravings . BY THE EDITOR OF " THE ARCANA OF SCIENCE . " " Science exalts the mind , and raises it ...
... NATURAL PHILOSOPHY ; ELECTRICITY ; CHEMISTRY ; ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY ; GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY ; METEOROLOGY AND ASTRONOMY . Ellustrated with Engravings . BY THE EDITOR OF " THE ARCANA OF SCIENCE . " " Science exalts the mind , and raises it ...
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... NATURAL PHILOSOPHY : Terrestrial Magnetism ; Waves and the Tides ; the Atmosphere ; New Phenomena of Light , Heat , and Vitality ; the Telescope and Microscope ELECTRICAL SCIENCE : · Researches of Faraday , Matteucci , De la Rive ...
... NATURAL PHILOSOPHY : Terrestrial Magnetism ; Waves and the Tides ; the Atmosphere ; New Phenomena of Light , Heat , and Vitality ; the Telescope and Microscope ELECTRICAL SCIENCE : · Researches of Faraday , Matteucci , De la Rive ...
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... , architect and artist . REV . W. LEWIS RHAM , rural economy . J. C. LOUDON , rural economist ; author of several works on Gardening , Agriculture , Natural History , & c . THE YEAR - BOOK OF FACTS . Mechanical and Useful.
... , architect and artist . REV . W. LEWIS RHAM , rural economy . J. C. LOUDON , rural economist ; author of several works on Gardening , Agriculture , Natural History , & c . THE YEAR - BOOK OF FACTS . Mechanical and Useful.
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... nature , attended with personal injury , during the last five months of 1840 , amounted to twenty - eight , by which twenty - two deaths and upwards of one hundred and thirty - one cases of injury were occa- sioned ; while during the ...
... nature , attended with personal injury , during the last five months of 1840 , amounted to twenty - eight , by which twenty - two deaths and upwards of one hundred and thirty - one cases of injury were occa- sioned ; while during the ...
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... nature of the stone , such parts of the piers as are exposed to the action of the atmosphere by the alternate rising and falling of the tide , have become much injured . Mr. Walker , the eminent engineer , upon examining the foundation ...
... nature of the stone , such parts of the piers as are exposed to the action of the atmosphere by the alternate rising and falling of the tide , have become much injured . Mr. Walker , the eminent engineer , upon examining the foundation ...
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