History of the Royal Society: From Its Institution to the End of the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1Abridgement of the philosophical transactions from 1665 to the end of the year 1800. |
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... Animals .. 70 2. Of Anatomy 3. Of Comparative Anatomy . 4. Of Physiology .. 5. Of Medicine and Surgery . CHAP . III . OF MINERALOGY . Sect . 1. Of Oryctognosy . 2. Of Geognosy 3. Of Mining . · CHAP . IV . OF GEOGRAPHY AND TOPOGRAPHY 90 ...
... Animals .. 70 2. Of Anatomy 3. Of Comparative Anatomy . 4. Of Physiology .. 5. Of Medicine and Surgery . CHAP . III . OF MINERALOGY . Sect . 1. Of Oryctognosy . 2. Of Geognosy 3. Of Mining . · CHAP . IV . OF GEOGRAPHY AND TOPOGRAPHY 90 ...
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... animals , minerals , and plants . Several cryptogamous plants make their first appearance in this work ; in the investigation of which plants Petiver was very successful . 2. GAZOPHYLACII NATURE ET ARTIS Decades decem . This book was of ...
... animals , minerals , and plants . Several cryptogamous plants make their first appearance in this work ; in the investigation of which plants Petiver was very successful . 2. GAZOPHYLACII NATURE ET ARTIS Decades decem . This book was of ...
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... animal , and mineral productions . He then bent his course to the mountains which separate Sweden and Norway . These he examined with particular care , and even travelled as far as the Frozen Ocean . Thence he passed through Finland ...
... animal , and mineral productions . He then bent his course to the mountains which separate Sweden and Norway . These he examined with particular care , and even travelled as far as the Frozen Ocean . Thence he passed through Finland ...
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... animals and vegetables with much patient industry and uncommon success , began his experiments on plants soon after the death of Dr. Grew . He was born on the 7th September , 1677 , in the county of Kent . He was descended of an ancient ...
... animals and vegetables with much patient industry and uncommon success , began his experiments on plants soon after the death of Dr. Grew . He was born on the 7th September , 1677 , in the county of Kent . He was descended of an ancient ...
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... animals are propagated only that way , and why should not the same law extend to the vegetable kingdom also . and seeds . But the greater number of plants furnish sceds , from which , when sown in a proper soil , plants similar to the ...
... animals are propagated only that way , and why should not the same law extend to the vegetable kingdom also . and seeds . But the greater number of plants furnish sceds , from which , when sown in a proper soil , plants similar to the ...
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