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With our present advantages of science , improved and confirmed by multiplied observations , the system of Ptolemy appears monstrous and incongruous : by the multiplication of epicycles , it might explain the inequalities in the motions ...
With our present advantages of science , improved and confirmed by multiplied observations , the system of Ptolemy appears monstrous and incongruous : by the multiplication of epicycles , it might explain the inequalities in the motions ...
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... make observations himself on that excentric planet ; and he had not presumed , like Kepler , to suspect that Ptolemy , instead of deducing his theory from observations , had sometimes corrected the observations to suit the theory .
... make observations himself on that excentric planet ; and he had not presumed , like Kepler , to suspect that Ptolemy , instead of deducing his theory from observations , had sometimes corrected the observations to suit the theory .
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cal observations . In 1777 , Lamarck remarked a similar property in the spadix of Arum Italicum ; as did the present author , in company with M. Hubert , in that of A. esculentum . The experiments are quoted at some length , and promise ...
cal observations . In 1777 , Lamarck remarked a similar property in the spadix of Arum Italicum ; as did the present author , in company with M. Hubert , in that of A. esculentum . The experiments are quoted at some length , and promise ...
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| Title | The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal Volumes 1215-1247 of Early English newspapers Volumes 384-432 of English literary periodicals |
| Contributors | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths |
| Publisher | R. Griffiths, 1804 |
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