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... prove to you , that it is very simple . They first procure a piece of steel , made something like a needle , but flat , about four inches long this they rub with the Load- stone , and then balance it exactly on a point or pivet , so ...
... prove to you , that it is very simple . They first procure a piece of steel , made something like a needle , but flat , about four inches long this they rub with the Load- stone , and then balance it exactly on a point or pivet , so ...
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... prove this , we put Master Jones into a boat , which ( including his own weight ) weighed ten hundred , on the Thames by the Mill - bank ; and on the Lambeth side , just opposite , we B placed another boat of one hundred weight , with a ...
... prove this , we put Master Jones into a boat , which ( including his own weight ) weighed ten hundred , on the Thames by the Mill - bank ; and on the Lambeth side , just opposite , we B placed another boat of one hundred weight , with a ...
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... proved here . after . But besides the stars which we see , there are others not discernible by the naked eye , some of which are fixed stars , and some are bodies moving about the most distant planets , which were invisible and unknown ...
... proved here . after . But besides the stars which we see , there are others not discernible by the naked eye , some of which are fixed stars , and some are bodies moving about the most distant planets , which were invisible and unknown ...
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... the earth , she always pre- sents the same side to us . were formerly imagined to The dark parts be seas ; but from later observation it is proved , that they are hollow places or caverns , which do not. Of the Solar System . 31.
... the earth , she always pre- sents the same side to us . were formerly imagined to The dark parts be seas ; but from later observation it is proved , that they are hollow places or caverns , which do not. Of the Solar System . 31.
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... prove what I have advanced ; for they are charged only with concentrated or condensed air . Here is one , I perceive , hanging over my head , where you are to observe that the ball , which is pre- viously filled by a syringe with the ...
... prove what I have advanced ; for they are charged only with concentrated or condensed air . Here is one , I perceive , hanging over my head , where you are to observe that the ball , which is pre- viously filled by a syringe with the ...
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