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... OBSERVATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS IN MEDICINE . FIRST AND SECOND SERIES . Post 8vo . 8s . 6d . each . 22. CONOLLY ON THE CONSTRUCTION AND GOVERNMENT OF LUNATIC ASYLUMS . Post 8vo . 6s . 23. CLARK ( SIR J. ) ON SANATIVE INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE ...
... OBSERVATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS IN MEDICINE . FIRST AND SECOND SERIES . Post 8vo . 8s . 6d . each . 22. CONOLLY ON THE CONSTRUCTION AND GOVERNMENT OF LUNATIC ASYLUMS . Post 8vo . 6s . 23. CLARK ( SIR J. ) ON SANATIVE INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE ...
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... observed by the astronomer were estimated by him as thirty - five thousand times more remote than Sirius , supposing its distance to be about twenty millions of millions of miles . More recently , the Earl of Rosse has brought a superb ...
... observed by the astronomer were estimated by him as thirty - five thousand times more remote than Sirius , supposing its distance to be about twenty millions of millions of miles . More recently , the Earl of Rosse has brought a superb ...
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... in that small measure upside down . It will be observed , that between the admitted and the suggested arrangement , there is only a difference of 22 degrees . violation of the rule . Then the distances are curiously 8 THE BODIES OF SPACE ,
... in that small measure upside down . It will be observed , that between the admitted and the suggested arrangement , there is only a difference of 22 degrees . violation of the rule . Then the distances are curiously 8 THE BODIES OF SPACE ,
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... observed that the first row of figures goes on from the second on the left hand in a succession of duplications , or multi- plications by 2. There is here a surprising signification of unity in the solar system . It was remarked , when ...
... observed that the first row of figures goes on from the second on the left hand in a succession of duplications , or multi- plications by 2. There is here a surprising signification of unity in the solar system . It was remarked , when ...
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... observed by the outer , over the inner portion of the zone . All this Laplace showed to be possible under the ... observe how entirely it accords with the Laplacian hypothesis . The discoverer points to an imaginary space extending in ...
... observed by the outer , over the inner portion of the zone . All this Laplace showed to be possible under the ... observe how entirely it accords with the Laplacian hypothesis . The discoverer points to an imaginary space extending in ...
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Page lx - Thus, the production of new forms, as shewn in the pages of the geological record, has never been anything more than a new stage of progress in gestation, an event as simply natural, and attended as little by any circumstances of a wonderful or startling kind, as the silent advance of an ordinary mother from one week to another of her pregnancy.
Page 329 - A law presupposes an agent, for it is only the mode according to which an agent proceeds: it implies a power, for it is the order according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this power, which are both distinct from itself, the law does nothing, is nothing. The expression, "the law of metallic nature...