The Athenaeum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information ..., Volume 3John Aikin Longmans, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 |
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Page 157
... period which seemed likely to be attended with considerable advantage to astronomy . The transit of Venus over the sun's disk , announced for the 3d of June , 1769 , was considered as a phænomenon which , if observed in different places ...
... period which seemed likely to be attended with considerable advantage to astronomy . The transit of Venus over the sun's disk , announced for the 3d of June , 1769 , was considered as a phænomenon which , if observed in different places ...
Page 164
... period immediately preceding as might be necessary to illustrate and to account for many of the events he would have to record . The manu- script that he has left comprises the introduction here spoken of , ( which con- tains much ...
... period immediately preceding as might be necessary to illustrate and to account for many of the events he would have to record . The manu- script that he has left comprises the introduction here spoken of , ( which con- tains much ...
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... period has been more cultivated than any other ; and the new regulation by which the pay of the native officers , which had been much lower than that of the foreigners in the Russian service , was raised and made equal to that of the ...
... period has been more cultivated than any other ; and the new regulation by which the pay of the native officers , which had been much lower than that of the foreigners in the Russian service , was raised and made equal to that of the ...
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Venezianu On the imitative Principle as an Instrument | 4 |
Education Account of the Gulph and Territory of Cataro | 10 |
concluded Synonymic Elucidations continued Remark | 34 |
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