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Page 528
... light complexion , with strongly - devel- oped hair and beard . Their villages are built with two long streets , in the forest ; the houses are small and close together . Clothing is reduced to a skin or wisp of grass , the women wear ...
... light complexion , with strongly - devel- oped hair and beard . Their villages are built with two long streets , in the forest ; the houses are small and close together . Clothing is reduced to a skin or wisp of grass , the women wear ...
Page 537
... light or other form of wave- motion pass from a point A in one medium to a point B in another , there is no path between A and B , taking into account the relative velocities of propagation in the two media , so short in time as that ...
... light or other form of wave- motion pass from a point A in one medium to a point B in another , there is no path between A and B , taking into account the relative velocities of propagation in the two media , so short in time as that ...
Page 542
... light steel field gun of 3.2 inches caliber . The carriage is made of steel , each cheek being formed of two pieces ... light batteries , the cannoneers are mounted on the ammunition chests of the limbers and caissons ; in horse ...
... light steel field gun of 3.2 inches caliber . The carriage is made of steel , each cheek being formed of two pieces ... light batteries , the cannoneers are mounted on the ammunition chests of the limbers and caissons ; in horse ...
Page 546
... light and heat are pro- duced . See COMBUSTION , FIRE WORSHIP , FLAME , FUEL , HEAT , LIGHT , and MATCHES . Fire . Artillery fire is distinguished by the manner in which the projectile strikes the object , as direct , ricochet , rolling ...
... light and heat are pro- duced . See COMBUSTION , FIRE WORSHIP , FLAME , FUEL , HEAT , LIGHT , and MATCHES . Fire . Artillery fire is distinguished by the manner in which the projectile strikes the object , as direct , ricochet , rolling ...
Page 547
... light carbureted hy drogen , with varying quantities of carbonic acid , oxygen and nitrogen . A mixture of the gas with eight or nine times its volume of air is highly explosive . See MARSH GAS . Fire Eater . Derisive name given to the ...
... light carbureted hy drogen , with varying quantities of carbonic acid , oxygen and nitrogen . A mixture of the gas with eight or nine times its volume of air is highly explosive . See MARSH GAS . Fire Eater . Derisive name given to the ...
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Page 863 - ... that the ratio of the sines of the angles of incidence and refraction is constant for refraction in the same medium, was effected by Snell and Descartes.
Page 684 - Or, four terms are in harmonical proportion, when the first is to the fourth as the difference of the first and second is to the difference of the third and fourth.
Page 727 - A body is called homogeneous when any two equal, similar parts of it, with corresponding lines parallel and turned towards the same parts, are undistinguishable from one another by any difference in quality.
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Page 608 - He had previously stated, in another work, that he believed, " the whole terrestrial globe to have been taken to pieces and dissolved at the flood, and the strata to have settled down from this promiscuous mass.
Page 608 - The illustrations are thus consecutively adduced. 1. Solid land has been converted into sea. 2. Sea has been changed into land. Marine shells lie far distant from the deep, and the anchor has been found on the summit of hills.