CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA A DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE1892 |
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... Society's rooms, Lon- don, in 1886; and in the same year he contributed to the Contemporary Review a series of autobiographical papers. Hunter, John, physiologist and surgeon, was born at Long Calderwood, near East Kilbride, in ...
... Society's rooms, Lon- don, in 1886; and in the same year he contributed to the Contemporary Review a series of autobiographical papers. Hunter, John, physiologist and surgeon, was born at Long Calderwood, near East Kilbride, in ...
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... Society. Soon after this he was selected to perform the necessary calculations for determining the density of the earth from Dr Maskelyne's olwerva- tions on Schiehallion, and his report was published in the Philosophical Transactions ...
... Society. Soon after this he was selected to perform the necessary calculations for determining the density of the earth from Dr Maskelyne's olwerva- tions on Schiehallion, and his report was published in the Philosophical Transactions ...
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... Society ; in 1852 one of the two Royal medals annually given by the Society was awarded to him ; anil in 1S53 he contributed to the Society's Transaction* a memoir on the morphology of the Cepbalous Mollusca. In 1854 he was appointed ...
... Society ; in 1852 one of the two Royal medals annually given by the Society was awarded to him ; anil in 1S53 he contributed to the Society's Transaction* a memoir on the morphology of the Cepbalous Mollusca. In 1854 he was appointed ...
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... Society. He discovered the laws of collision of elastic bodies about the same time as Wallis and Wren, and also made a material improvement in the air-pump. But his most important discoveries are in the department of optics : he it was ...
... Society. He discovered the laws of collision of elastic bodies about the same time as Wallis and Wren, and also made a material improvement in the air-pump. But his most important discoveries are in the department of optics : he it was ...
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... society to the Madeleine and Notre Dame in Paris. Almost as remarkable as his el<M|iience was the boldness with which he denounced existing abuses in the church ; and Archbishop Darlsjy defended him against the accusations of the ...
... society to the Madeleine and Notre Dame in Paris. Almost as remarkable as his el<M|iience was the boldness with which he denounced existing abuses in the church ; and Archbishop Darlsjy defended him against the accusations of the ...
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