Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Enlarged and ImprovedA. Constable, 1824 |
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... annual equation , which had been long confounded with the equation of time . With regard to the other inequalities , it does not appear that Newton attempted an exact determination of them , but satisfied himself with this general truth ...
... annual equation , which had been long confounded with the equation of time . With regard to the other inequalities , it does not appear that Newton attempted an exact determination of them , but satisfied himself with this general truth ...
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... annual shoot or bud ; it is commonly followed by a semicircle and a block or dash . 181. There is some little uncertainty respecting the exact limits of the characters denoting the first month THOYTH . The name seems to have some ...
... annual shoot or bud ; it is commonly followed by a semicircle and a block or dash . 181. There is some little uncertainty respecting the exact limits of the characters denoting the first month THOYTH . The name seems to have some ...
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... annual amount is about L.2500 Sterling . Pearl oysters were for- merly caught , but this fishery has been exhausted . There are numerous marine marshes from which salt is evaporated , though the manufacture is not well conducted . The ...
... annual amount is about L.2500 Sterling . Pearl oysters were for- merly caught , but this fishery has been exhausted . There are numerous marine marshes from which salt is evaporated , though the manufacture is not well conducted . The ...
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... annual average of twenty millions of lbs . The climate of England is that of an insular coun- Climate . try of limited extent , subject , in consequence , to rain , and exempt from intensity of either heat or cold . Compared with the ...
... annual average of twenty millions of lbs . The climate of England is that of an insular coun- Climate . try of limited extent , subject , in consequence , to rain , and exempt from intensity of either heat or cold . Compared with the ...
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... annual temperature , noon and night , of the central part of England , is about 50 ° . The greatest summer heat seldom exceeds 80 ° , and the cold of December or January is rarely below 20 ° or 25 ° . In mild situations in Devonshire ...
... annual temperature , noon and night , of the central part of England , is about 50 ° . The greatest summer heat seldom exceeds 80 ° , and the cold of December or January is rarely below 20 ° or 25 ° . In mild situations in Devonshire ...
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Seite 32 - Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, cocoa was largely and successfully cultivated, but in 1725 a blight fell upon the plantations.
Seite 272 - And the United States hereby renounce forever, any liberty heretofore enjoyed or claimed by the inhabitants thereof, to take, dry, or cure fish on, or within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Seite 272 - Newfoundland hereabove described, and of the coast of Labrador ; but so soon as the same, or any portion thereof shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such portion so settled, without previous agreement for such purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Seite 15 - Besides this, there is another connexion of ideas wholly owing to chance or custom : ideas that in themselves are not at all of kin, come to be so united in some men's minds that it is very hard to separate them ; they always keep in company, and the one no sooner at any time comes into the understanding, but its associate appears with it; and if they are more than two which are thus united, the whole gang, always inseparable, show themselves together.
Seite 83 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
Seite 64 - ... the squares of the periodic times are as the cubes of the distances from the common centre, the centripetal forces will be inversely as the squares of the distances.
Seite 255 - The British Society for extending the Fisheries and improving the Sea Coasts of the Kingdom...
Seite 163 - The Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia, collected from the Observations of John Abbot, with the Plants on which they Feed.
Seite 364 - His superiority was never felt, but in the instruction which he imparted, or in the attention which his generous preference usually directed to the more obscure members of the company. The simplicity of his manners was far from excluding that perfect urbanity and amenity which flowed still more from the mildness of his nature, than from familiar intercourse with the most polished society of Europe.
Seite 280 - It is about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth, but contracts at both ends.