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... toward the great inventors . In one respect , only , its effects were different from those which one would have wished to see produced . It excited jealousy between two great men who ought to have DISSERTATION SECOND . 13.
... toward the great inventors . In one respect , only , its effects were different from those which one would have wished to see produced . It excited jealousy between two great men who ought to have DISSERTATION SECOND . 13.
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... respect to a difference in their incidence , were , according to their degrees of refrangibility , transmitted towards divers parts of the wall . ” 1 It was also observed , that when the rays which fell on the second prism were all of ...
... respect to a difference in their incidence , were , according to their degrees of refrangibility , transmitted towards divers parts of the wall . ” 1 It was also observed , that when the rays which fell on the second prism were all of ...
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... respect , the great astronomer who was laying the foundation of all that is known of the heavens , was not so far advanced as Anaxagoras and Plutarch ; -so slow and unequal are the steps by which science advances to perfection . The ...
... respect , the great astronomer who was laying the foundation of all that is known of the heavens , was not so far advanced as Anaxagoras and Plutarch ; -so slow and unequal are the steps by which science advances to perfection . The ...
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... respect of the fixed stars . moon . This was a new proof of the reality of the principle of gravitation , which , how- ever , was rendered less conclusive by the consideration that the exact quantity of the motion of the apsides ...
... respect of the fixed stars . moon . This was a new proof of the reality of the principle of gravitation , which , how- ever , was rendered less conclusive by the consideration that the exact quantity of the motion of the apsides ...
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... respect to another motion to which the plane of the lunar orbit is subject , a pheno- menon which had been long known in consequence of its influence on the eclipses of the sun and moon . This was the retrogradation of the line of nodes ...
... respect to another motion to which the plane of the lunar orbit is subject , a pheno- menon which had been long known in consequence of its influence on the eclipses of the sun and moon . This was the retrogradation of the line of nodes ...
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