On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man: Principally with Reference to the Supply of His Wants, and the Exercise of His Intellectual FacultiesWilliam Pickering, 1833 - 375 من الصفحات |
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... ap- plied . The transparency and degree of hard- ness of crystals are various , and depend much upon external circumstances . The form is funda- mentally the same for each species , though ca- pable в 3 INTRODUCTION . 5.
... ap- plied . The transparency and degree of hard- ness of crystals are various , and depend much upon external circumstances . The form is funda- mentally the same for each species , though ca- pable в 3 INTRODUCTION . 5.
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... various forms of matter . Give all the intelligence therefore that you please to the horse , or to the elephant , yet with hoofs instead of hands it is physically impos- sible that they could construct the simplest in- b The term ...
... various forms of matter . Give all the intelligence therefore that you please to the horse , or to the elephant , yet with hoofs instead of hands it is physically impos- sible that they could construct the simplest in- b The term ...
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... various duties which her nursery or household will hereafter require . The re- corded attempt to conceal Achilles in female attire , whether founded in fact , or , as is pro- bable , merely a fictitious anecdote , will serve to ...
... various duties which her nursery or household will hereafter require . The re- corded attempt to conceal Achilles in female attire , whether founded in fact , or , as is pro- bable , merely a fictitious anecdote , will serve to ...
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... various wants , or for the exercise of his intellectual fa- culties , let us examine more closely than hitherto the condition of those corporeal organs , by the agency of which he is enabled to produce the results intended . There can ...
... various wants , or for the exercise of his intellectual fa- culties , let us examine more closely than hitherto the condition of those corporeal organs , by the agency of which he is enabled to produce the results intended . There can ...
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... various purposes to which it is applicable is so open to the investigating eye of reason , as to afford one of the readiest subjects of physical demonstra- tion , a tacit reference was made to that remark- able part of the writings of ...
... various purposes to which it is applicable is so open to the investigating eye of reason , as to afford one of the readiest subjects of physical demonstra- tion , a tacit reference was made to that remark- able part of the writings of ...
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