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... produce corresponding differences of a very marked kind in the lengths of those periods and in the vicissitudes of climate occasioned by them . The most important of these differences are caused of course by the very various distances ...
... produce corresponding differences of a very marked kind in the lengths of those periods and in the vicissitudes of climate occasioned by them . The most important of these differences are caused of course by the very various distances ...
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... to be productive of very serious effects to its inhabitants . Even at our own earth , whose orbit is so much more nearly circular , the same cause produces a quite perceptible effect . The earth 18 The Romance of Astronomy .
... to be productive of very serious effects to its inhabitants . Even at our own earth , whose orbit is so much more nearly circular , the same cause produces a quite perceptible effect . The earth 18 The Romance of Astronomy .
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Robert Kalley Miller. same cause produces a quite perceptible effect . The earth is nearest the sun in December , and the consequence of this is that in our northern hemisphere the winter is rendered milder than it would otherwise be ...
Robert Kalley Miller. same cause produces a quite perceptible effect . The earth is nearest the sun in December , and the consequence of this is that in our northern hemisphere the winter is rendered milder than it would otherwise be ...
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... produces in the other planets , diminished the importance of having an accurate knowledge of him . Any similar uncertainty about one of the larger planets would have interposed most serious obstacles to the progress of science , and ...
... produces in the other planets , diminished the importance of having an accurate knowledge of him . Any similar uncertainty about one of the larger planets would have interposed most serious obstacles to the progress of science , and ...
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... produce such powerful effects in the same way that it produces our trade winds . They , therefore , attribute them to some cause inherent in Jupiter him- self , and conclude that he is still in that unsettled and un- solidified state in ...
... produce such powerful effects in the same way that it produces our trade winds . They , therefore , attribute them to some cause inherent in Jupiter him- self , and conclude that he is still in that unsettled and un- solidified state in ...
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