Pocket Encyclopedia: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Polite Literature, Volumen3Edward Augustus Kendall Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, 1811 |
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... fixed there , or it is a point in the ecliptic to which a planet seen from the earth is referred , GEOGRAPHY , the description of the surface of the earth , its natural divisions , and local characteristics . The fundamental principles ...
... fixed there , or it is a point in the ecliptic to which a planet seen from the earth is referred , GEOGRAPHY , the description of the surface of the earth , its natural divisions , and local characteristics . The fundamental principles ...
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... fixed on metals , by previously reducing it into an amalgam or paste , with mercury . With this amalgam , the metal to be gilded is covered ; and , on the application of heat sufficient to evaporate the mercury , nothing is left but the ...
... fixed on metals , by previously reducing it into an amalgam or paste , with mercury . With this amalgam , the metal to be gilded is covered ; and , on the application of heat sufficient to evaporate the mercury , nothing is left but the ...
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... fixed stars : yet all these ce . lestial objects appear equally distant . If , therefore , we imagine a large hollow sphere of glass to have fixed to its inside as many bright studs as there are visible stars in the heaven , and these ...
... fixed stars : yet all these ce . lestial objects appear equally distant . If , therefore , we imagine a large hollow sphere of glass to have fixed to its inside as many bright studs as there are visible stars in the heaven , and these ...
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... fixed to the sphere , the same stars would always rise in the same points of view on the east side , and set in the same points of view on the west side : but with the sun it would be otherwise , because that luminary is not fixed to ...
... fixed to the sphere , the same stars would always rise in the same points of view on the east side , and set in the same points of view on the west side : but with the sun it would be otherwise , because that luminary is not fixed to ...
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... , there were seven heavens for the seven planets , and an eighth for the fixed stars . Ptolemy added a ninth , which he called the primum - mobile . VOL , III . Alphonsus , the king , added two chrystalline heavens , HEA 61.
... , there were seven heavens for the seven planets , and an eighth for the fixed stars . Ptolemy added a ninth , which he called the primum - mobile . VOL , III . Alphonsus , the king , added two chrystalline heavens , HEA 61.
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Página 359 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by the law? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? King or queen: All this I promise to do.
Página 45 - This is a high prerogative writ, and therefore by the common law issuing out of the court of king's bench not only in term-time, but also during the vacation, by a fiat from the chief justice or any other of the judges, and running into all parts of the king's dominions; for the king is at all times entitled to have an account, why the liberty of any of his subjects is restrained, wherever that restraint may be inflicted.
Página 319 - Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon.
Página 5 - A Proposition, is something which is either proposed to be done, or to be demonstrated, and is either a problem or a theorem.
Página 5 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line called the circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre ; as ABD E.
Página 228 - But every man, when he enters into society, gives up a part of his natural liberty, as the price of so valuable a purchase ; and in consideration of receiving the advantages of mutual commerce, obliges himself to conform to those laws, which the community has thought proper to establish.
Página 361 - Odin is believed to have been the name of the one true god among the first colonies who came from the East, and peopled Germany and Scandinavia, and among their posterity for several ages.
Página 327 - The study of natural history, simple, beautiful, and instructive, consists in the collection, arrangement, and exhibition of the various productions of the earth.
Página 333 - Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Página 144 - An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury.