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... Object , 20 ; the Great Comet 1882 b , 4 , 21 , 43 , 56 , 80 , 161 , 210 , 300 , 349 , 400 , 446 , 540 , 589 ; Major J. Herschel , Geo . M. Seabroke , Arthur Watts , 4 ; Spectroscopic Observations of , 24 , 42 ; C. J. B. Williams , 29 ...
... Object , 20 ; the Great Comet 1882 b , 4 , 21 , 43 , 56 , 80 , 161 , 210 , 300 , 349 , 400 , 446 , 540 , 589 ; Major J. Herschel , Geo . M. Seabroke , Arthur Watts , 4 ; Spectroscopic Observations of , 24 , 42 ; C. J. B. Williams , 29 ...
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... Object , 20 ; Variable Star near Spica , 617 Schriften der Physicalisch - Ökonomischen Gesell - chaft zu Königs- berg , 521 Schwalbe ( Dr. ) " Lehrbuch der Neurologie , " 196 Schwarz ( Herr ) , Action of Zinc on Sulphur , 184 Science ...
... Object , 20 ; Variable Star near Spica , 617 Schriften der Physicalisch - Ökonomischen Gesell - chaft zu Königs- berg , 521 Schwalbe ( Dr. ) " Lehrbuch der Neurologie , " 196 Schwarz ( Herr ) , Action of Zinc on Sulphur , 184 Science ...
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... object of which is to send heavy bodies to a great distance at a very high velocity . The motive power acts on the body for a very short time , a fraction of a second only , it must therefore be of great intensity , and consequently the ...
... object of which is to send heavy bodies to a great distance at a very high velocity . The motive power acts on the body for a very short time , a fraction of a second only , it must therefore be of great intensity , and consequently the ...
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... OBJECT . - We have received a circular ( No. 48 ) of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Vienna , con- 14 , in which he notifies his discovery of a nebulous object not far from the head of the great comet , which will be best given in ...
... OBJECT . - We have received a circular ( No. 48 ) of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Vienna , con- 14 , in which he notifies his discovery of a nebulous object not far from the head of the great comet , which will be best given in ...
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... objects capable of being perceived by the speaker and the hearer ; and that when our thought pretends to deal with the Subject , it is really only dealing with an Object under a false name . only proposition about the subject , namely ...
... objects capable of being perceived by the speaker and the hearer ; and that when our thought pretends to deal with the Subject , it is really only dealing with an Object under a false name . only proposition about the subject , namely ...
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