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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... Observations , Topographical , Moral , and Physiological , made in a Journey through part of the Low Countries , Germany , Italy , and France . But the work which does him the most credit , by raising him to the rank of a systematic ...
... Observations , Topographical , Moral , and Physiological , made in a Journey through part of the Low Countries , Germany , Italy , and France . But the work which does him the most credit , by raising him to the rank of a systematic ...
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... observations . The result of his observations was afterwards published in his Travels , an excellent work , which has been translated into English . While crossing a street in Paris , in 1708 , he was struck in the breast by the axle of ...
... observations . The result of his observations was afterwards published in his Travels , an excellent work , which has been translated into English . While crossing a street in Paris , in 1708 , he was struck in the breast by the axle of ...
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... observations of which Linnæus afterwards availed himself . He first laid aside the division of plants into herbs and trees , as a useless incumbrance . On this subject , Ray entered into a controversy with him . But the subsequent ...
... observations of which Linnæus afterwards availed himself . He first laid aside the division of plants into herbs and trees , as a useless incumbrance . On this subject , Ray entered into a controversy with him . But the subsequent ...
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... observations . Dr. Stephen Hales , one of the most celebrated names of the last century , the Hales . philosopher who laid open the passage to pneumatic chemistry , which has added so much to our knowledge of nature , and who ...
... observations . Dr. Stephen Hales , one of the most celebrated names of the last century , the Hales . philosopher who laid open the passage to pneumatic chemistry , which has added so much to our knowledge of nature , and who ...
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... observations ; a celebrity long ago entirely vanished . He endeavoured to prove , that the plant existed ready formed in the seed ; an opinion , at that time , pretty generally embraced ; but long since laid aside as absurd and utterly ...
... observations ; a celebrity long ago entirely vanished . He endeavoured to prove , that the plant existed ready formed in the seed ; an opinion , at that time , pretty generally embraced ; but long since laid aside as absurd and utterly ...
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