The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtSimpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1872 |
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... be by M. Sis- monda . Verification was absolute on an immense scale , so it is possible to say , " That for the learned men the mountains are made of glass , as their eyes can see everything 20 THE YEAR - BOOK OF FACTS .
... be by M. Sis- monda . Verification was absolute on an immense scale , so it is possible to say , " That for the learned men the mountains are made of glass , as their eyes can see everything 20 THE YEAR - BOOK OF FACTS .
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made of glass , as their eyes can see everything within their abysses . " No artesian well has ever given an opportunity to be compared with the perforation of Mont Cenis , as the deepest bored by European engineers is only 1,000 metres ...
made of glass , as their eyes can see everything within their abysses . " No artesian well has ever given an opportunity to be compared with the perforation of Mont Cenis , as the deepest bored by European engineers is only 1,000 metres ...
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... glass . It will thus completely depolish a surface moving past at the rate of 5 in . per minute , and the spent sand and glass dust can be perpetually returned and re- employed . By covering parts of the glass with any semi - elastic ...
... glass . It will thus completely depolish a surface moving past at the rate of 5 in . per minute , and the spent sand and glass dust can be perpetually returned and re- employed . By covering parts of the glass with any semi - elastic ...
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... glass which had been perforated by the sand - jet , under a covering of wire gauze . The glass was turned , as it were , into a delicate square of blonde lace , with meshes of in . , and threads of 1 in . , a result unattainable by any ...
... glass which had been perforated by the sand - jet , under a covering of wire gauze . The glass was turned , as it were , into a delicate square of blonde lace , with meshes of in . , and threads of 1 in . , a result unattainable by any ...
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... were at work in them were much cut by the glass and slates . The gun - cotton works were situated on the left - hand side of E the railway running from Ipswich , and the buildings were MECHANICAL AND USEFUL ARTS . 65.
... were at work in them were much cut by the glass and slates . The gun - cotton works were situated on the left - hand side of E the railway running from Ipswich , and the buildings were MECHANICAL AND USEFUL ARTS . 65.
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Стр. 119 - The hypothesis that life originated on this earth through moss-grown fragments from the ruins of another world may seem wild and visionary; all I maintain is that it is not unscientific.
Стр. 119 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Стр. 119 - ... we must regard it as probable in the highest degree that there are countless seedbearing meteoric stones moving about through space. If at the present instant no life existed upon this earth, one such stone falling upon it might, by what we blindly call natural causes, lead to its becoming covered with vegetation.