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... published in some shape or other . The authorities from which the present particulars have been taken are given at the end of each memoir ; and the writer claims no further merit than that of having com- piled and arranged the works of ...
... published in some shape or other . The authorities from which the present particulars have been taken are given at the end of each memoir ; and the writer claims no further merit than that of having com- piled and arranged the works of ...
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... published , in 1815 , a small work entitled ' A Companion to the Transit Instrument . ' Many years before his death Mr. Allen withdrew from business , and purchased an estate near Lindfield , Sussex . Here while still engaged in public ...
... published , in 1815 , a small work entitled ' A Companion to the Transit Instrument . ' Many years before his death Mr. Allen withdrew from business , and purchased an estate near Lindfield , Sussex . Here while still engaged in public ...
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... published in the ' Philosophical Transactions for 1811 , and in 1813 published a work entitled ' An Epitome of Universal History . ' Astronomy , however , was his chief pursuit ; and shortly after the celebrated fraud of De Beranger on ...
... published in the ' Philosophical Transactions for 1811 , and in 1813 published a work entitled ' An Epitome of Universal History . ' Astronomy , however , was his chief pursuit ; and shortly after the celebrated fraud of De Beranger on ...
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... published a full and inter- esting account of the voyage . A great part of the knowledge resulting from the various travels of Mr. Banks were communicated by him , at different times , in papers to the Royal Society , of which he had ...
... published a full and inter- esting account of the voyage . A great part of the knowledge resulting from the various travels of Mr. Banks were communicated by him , at different times , in papers to the Royal Society , of which he had ...
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... published in 1814 , by displaying in the most instructive form the superior advantages of the Natural Sys- tem , gave new life to that system , which had hitherto found little favour in France , and speedily led to its universal ...
... published in 1814 , by displaying in the most instructive form the superior advantages of the Natural Sys- tem , gave new life to that system , which had hitherto found little favour in France , and speedily led to its universal ...
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afterwards apparatus appointed astronomical became Bentham Born Boulton Boulton and Watt Bramah bridge Brunel canal Cavendish Charlotte Dundas chemical chemistry Civil Engineers commenced considerable construction continued contrivances Crompton Dalton Davy death died discovery distinguished Dollond early Edinburgh elected Ellesmere Canal eminent employed Encyclopædia Britannica engaged England engraving erected established experiments father feet Francis Baily Gilbert Glasgow heat Henry Henry Maudslay Herschel honour Huddart improvements Institution instruments invention inventor iron James Watt Jenner Jessop John John Rennie knowledge labour lectures living London Lord machine machinery manufacture Maskelyne mathematical Maudslay mechanical memoir ments nature navigation numerous obtained occupied original paper patent period Peter Dollond Philosophical plates Playfair practical published Rennie residence Royal Society Samuel Samuel Bentham Samuel Crompton scientific Sir Joseph Banks Soho steam steam-engine studies succeeded Symington Telford Tennant Thomas Young tion took Transactions Trevithick various Watt Watt's William Wollaston Young
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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.