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Page 237 - A Practical Treatise on Gas Light ; exhibiting a summary Description of the Apparatus and Machinery best calculated for illuminating Streets, Houses, and Manufactories, with...
Page 72 - These several Lectures are so arranged, that no two of them interfere in the hours of attendance; and the whole is calculated to form a complete course of medical and chirurgical instruction.
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Page 77 - Philosophy" for the year 1815, there is an elaborate essay on the shapes, dimensions, and positions of the spaces in the earth which are called Rents, and the arrangement of the matter in them, by Mr.
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Page 252 - He further states, that while Dr Wells " affords us complete information, not only respecting the sentiments of Aristotle and Theophrastus as to the nature and causes of dew, but also of the most distinguished philosophers of modern times; some of the works, however, of the persons whom he mentions, and some of the latest, have most unaccountably escaped his attention.
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