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... Author , and 152 Woodcuts . Square crown 8vo . 28s . From the MORNING CHRONICLE . Or all our writers upon Sacred Art , there is none in whose hands the subject acquires so deep an interest , or is treated with such profound knowledge ...
... Author , and 152 Woodcuts . Square crown 8vo . 28s . From the MORNING CHRONICLE . Or all our writers upon Sacred Art , there is none in whose hands the subject acquires so deep an interest , or is treated with such profound knowledge ...
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... author then occupied , and without any expecta- tion that its use would extend much beyond the circle of his immediate hearers . It has , however , found its way elsewhere ; and the author has been urged , by some of his fellow ...
... author then occupied , and without any expecta- tion that its use would extend much beyond the circle of his immediate hearers . It has , however , found its way elsewhere ; and the author has been urged , by some of his fellow ...
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... author fears that the style still retains more of the traces of the lecture - room than is consistent with a formal scientific treatise . His only aim has been to present , to those who were conversant with the ele- ments of Mathematics ...
... author fears that the style still retains more of the traces of the lecture - room than is consistent with a formal scientific treatise . His only aim has been to present , to those who were conversant with the ele- ments of Mathematics ...
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... the laws of reflexion and refraction on that supposition . But as Newton was the first to deduce the mathematical consequences of the theory of emission , he has been usually regarded as its author . The wave - PROPAGATION OF LIGHT . 9.
... the laws of reflexion and refraction on that supposition . But as Newton was the first to deduce the mathematical consequences of the theory of emission , he has been usually regarded as its author . The wave - PROPAGATION OF LIGHT . 9.
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Humphrey Lloyd. been usually regarded as its author . The wave - theory was propounded by Hooke , in the year 1664 ; and was developed into several of its consequences , a few years later , by Huy- gens . Let us examine each of these ...
Humphrey Lloyd. been usually regarded as its author . The wave - theory was propounded by Hooke , in the year 1664 ; and was developed into several of its consequences , a few years later , by Huy- gens . Let us examine each of these ...
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