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... original members of the Royal Astronomical Society . In connec- tion with this science , he published , in 1815 , a small work entitled ' A Companion to the Transit Instrument . ' Many years before his death Mr. Allen withdrew from ...
... original members of the Royal Astronomical Society . In connec- tion with this science , he published , in 1815 , a small work entitled ' A Companion to the Transit Instrument . ' Many years before his death Mr. Allen withdrew from ...
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... original value . Although Mr. Baily was thus actively devoting himself to matters of a direct commercial interest , he was still able to find time for works of a more general nature : in 1810 he wrote his first astro- nomical paper on ...
... original value . Although Mr. Baily was thus actively devoting himself to matters of a direct commercial interest , he was still able to find time for works of a more general nature : in 1810 he wrote his first astro- nomical paper on ...
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... original one by Bird ( that of 1758 ) were destroyed . When it is considered that Baily's repetition of the Cavendish Experiment in- volved untiring watching for more than 1200 hours , and this , too , by one who in early life seemed ...
... original one by Bird ( that of 1758 ) were destroyed . When it is considered that Baily's repetition of the Cavendish Experiment in- volved untiring watching for more than 1200 hours , and this , too , by one who in early life seemed ...
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... original construction of Savery . This , how- ever , in turn was found to be insufficient for the objects required , and Boulton then had the discernment to perceive that they might be very completely attained by the adoption of the ...
... original construction of Savery . This , how- ever , in turn was found to be insufficient for the objects required , and Boulton then had the discernment to perceive that they might be very completely attained by the adoption of the ...
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... original line of action than he had yet ventured upon . In his patent of 1785 he indicated many inventions , although none of them came into prac- tical use such as a Hydrostatical Machine and Boiler , and the ap- plication of the power ...
... original line of action than he had yet ventured upon . In his patent of 1785 he indicated many inventions , although none of them came into prac- tical use such as a Hydrostatical Machine and Boiler , and the ap- plication of the power ...
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Page 139 - Watt, who directing the force of an original genius early exercised in philosophic research to the improvement of the steam-engine, enlarged the resources of his country, increased the power of man, and rose to an eminent place among the most illustrious followers of science, and the real benefactors of the world.
Page 70 - Having never seen the disease but in its casual way before, that is when communicated from the cow to the hand of the milker, I was astonished at the close resemblance of the pustules, in some of their stages, to the variolous pustules.
Page 69 - ... so that, if a cuckoo should be ready with an egg much sooner than the time pointed out, not a single nestling, even one of the earliest, would be fit to provide for itself before its parent would be instinctively directed to seek a new residence, and be thus compelled to abandon its young one; for old cuckoos take their final leave of this country the first week in July.