The Gallery of Nature; a Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through Creation, Illustrative of the Wonders of Astronmy, Physical Geography, and Geology |
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Page 87
... effect upon the constituents of the atmosphere . But this remains to be shewn ; and to suppose disorders of the brain to be exasperated by lunar changes , as an effect of those changes , may be safely dismissed as a vulgar conceit ...
... effect upon the constituents of the atmosphere . But this remains to be shewn ; and to suppose disorders of the brain to be exasperated by lunar changes , as an effect of those changes , may be safely dismissed as a vulgar conceit ...
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... effect . These circumstances have some connection with the physical condition of the district - a focus of earthquakes - but the links between the two are unknown to us ; another evi- dence , that , in the physics of the earth , there ...
... effect . These circumstances have some connection with the physical condition of the district - a focus of earthquakes - but the links between the two are unknown to us ; another evi- dence , that , in the physics of the earth , there ...
Page 353
... effect , according to the law of gravity the presence of a body like the moon will produce upon the zone of water , a fluid so susceptible of mobility , yielding to the slightest impressions . As a solid body draws toward it any other ...
... effect , according to the law of gravity the presence of a body like the moon will produce upon the zone of water , a fluid so susceptible of mobility , yielding to the slightest impressions . As a solid body draws toward it any other ...
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Illustrated TitleAstronomy | 14 |
Sycne near Alexandria | 89 |
Translation of the Earth in space | 159 |
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