Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics, and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time ; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography ; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon, Volume 13Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth Desilver, Thomas, & Company, 1836 |
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... principal of which is entitled Enodatio Problematum ( 1677 ) , comprising the solution of three problems which had been submitted to all the mathematicians of Europe . VIVIANITE . ( See Iron , vol . vii , p . 69. ) VIZIER is a title of ...
... principal of which is entitled Enodatio Problematum ( 1677 ) , comprising the solution of three problems which had been submitted to all the mathematicians of Europe . VIVIANITE . ( See Iron , vol . vii , p . 69. ) VIZIER is a title of ...
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... principal , continues burning without in- termission , and is so high , that it may be distinguished at the distance of 150 miles . A year never passes in this province with- out some slight shocks of earthquakes ; and about once in a ...
... principal , continues burning without in- termission , and is so high , that it may be distinguished at the distance of 150 miles . A year never passes in this province with- out some slight shocks of earthquakes ; and about once in a ...
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... principal volcanic vents , dis- persed through the great regions before described , and consider the composition and arrangement of their lavas and eject- ed matter . From the first colonization of Southern Italy by the Greeks , Vesu ...
... principal volcanic vents , dis- persed through the great regions before described , and consider the composition and arrangement of their lavas and eject- ed matter . From the first colonization of Southern Italy by the Greeks , Vesu ...
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... principal city was Antium , the ru- ins of which are to be seen in the neigh- borhood of cape Angio . Corioli , from which Coriolanus derived his surname , was another city of theirs . After having several times endangered the Roman ...
... principal city was Antium , the ru- ins of which are to be seen in the neigh- borhood of cape Angio . Corioli , from which Coriolanus derived his surname , was another city of theirs . After having several times endangered the Roman ...
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... principal people , he thought it best to leave the place . He therefore purchased the estate of Ferney , in the Pays de Gex , where he resided the rest of his life , with his niece , madame Denis . He drew manufacturers , and other ...
... principal people , he thought it best to leave the place . He therefore purchased the estate of Ferney , in the Pays de Gex , where he resided the rest of his life , with his niece , madame Denis . He drew manufacturers , and other ...
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