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... University of that city , in which he continued his studies for several years ; but without taking a degree , although destined for the medical profession . In the year 1791 , at the age of seventeen , Brown laid before the Natural ...
... University of that city , in which he continued his studies for several years ; but without taking a degree , although destined for the medical profession . In the year 1791 , at the age of seventeen , Brown laid before the Natural ...
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... University of Oxford conferred on him , in conjunction with Dalton , Faraday , and Brewster , the honorary degree of D.C.L .; and , in the succeeding year , he was elected one of the eight foreign associates of the Academy of Sciences ...
... University of Oxford conferred on him , in conjunction with Dalton , Faraday , and Brewster , the honorary degree of D.C.L .; and , in the succeeding year , he was elected one of the eight foreign associates of the Academy of Sciences ...
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... University College , Oxford , where he was entered at fourteen years of age , and during the vacations was placed under the private tuition of Dr. Langhorne , the editor of ' Plutarch's Lives . ' * Dr. Cartwright was the younger brother ...
... University College , Oxford , where he was entered at fourteen years of age , and during the vacations was placed under the private tuition of Dr. Langhorne , the editor of ' Plutarch's Lives . ' * Dr. Cartwright was the younger brother ...
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... university until 1753 , but did not graduate . After leaving Cambridge , the personal history of Cavendish be- comes a blank for the next ten years . He joined the Royal Society in 1760 , but did not contribute anything to its ...
... university until 1753 , but did not graduate . After leaving Cambridge , the personal history of Cavendish be- comes a blank for the next ten years . He joined the Royal Society in 1760 , but did not contribute anything to its ...
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... University he associated with the senior members of his college , preferring their company to that of students of his own age ; and considering the natural bent of his tastes , which led him to prefer the study of the severer sciences ...
... University he associated with the senior members of his college , preferring their company to that of students of his own age ; and considering the natural bent of his tastes , which led him to prefer the study of the severer sciences ...
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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.