Lectures in Natural Philosophy: Designed, to be a Foundation, for Reasoning Pertinently, Upon the Petrifications, Gems, Crystals, and Sanative Quality of Lough Neagh in Ireland; and Intended to be an Introduction, to the Natural History of Several Counties Contiguous to that Lake, Particularly the County of Ardmagh []̨author, 1751 - 185 páginas |
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... used here inftead of pores , as being the true manner of expreffing it . For water can not by any force be made to pafs through pores , through which it would not pafs by mere gravity or attraction . The spherical body can not be ...
... used here inftead of pores , as being the true manner of expreffing it . For water can not by any force be made to pafs through pores , through which it would not pafs by mere gravity or attraction . The spherical body can not be ...
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... used often to admire , but being more of the rural sportsman , than the philofopher , he did not examine into it . Being removed thence forty miles , when he related this , he promised to fhew the place , whenever he went into that ...
... used often to admire , but being more of the rural sportsman , than the philofopher , he did not examine into it . Being removed thence forty miles , when he related this , he promised to fhew the place , whenever he went into that ...
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... used upon that occafion , and immediately before the reading of this lecture , is printed alfo immediately before it . For fome readers will rather chufe to pafs over the principles , or take them for granted , than be detained by ...
... used upon that occafion , and immediately before the reading of this lecture , is printed alfo immediately before it . For fome readers will rather chufe to pafs over the principles , or take them for granted , than be detained by ...
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... used in human tools . But the application of this to fuch ufes , would not be cafy ; because the largeft portions of it hitherto found , did not exceed those blocks , which are at prefent before you ; which being irregular in their ...
... used in human tools . But the application of this to fuch ufes , would not be cafy ; because the largeft portions of it hitherto found , did not exceed those blocks , which are at prefent before you ; which being irregular in their ...
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... used ; în order to make which as conclufive as poffible , every circumftance of the place , wherein these heterogene wood - ftones are found , must be minutely related . The bank at Ahanefs is twelve feet high , between the bottom of ...
... used ; în order to make which as conclufive as poffible , every circumftance of the place , wherein these heterogene wood - ftones are found , must be minutely related . The bank at Ahanefs is twelve feet high , between the bottom of ...
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