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... effects produced by con- cordant or discordant sounds . If three successive notes of the gamut are sounded together we have an unpleasing sound ; but if red , orange , and yellow lights are commingled , the resulting light is not ...
... effects produced by con- cordant or discordant sounds . If three successive notes of the gamut are sounded together we have an unpleasing sound ; but if red , orange , and yellow lights are commingled , the resulting light is not ...
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... effects of juxtaposed colours depend ( the laws of complementary colours being by no means sufficient for the purpose ) , or on the other , the principles which render certain sequences of sound more or less pleasing to us . that gas is ...
... effects of juxtaposed colours depend ( the laws of complementary colours being by no means sufficient for the purpose ) , or on the other , the principles which render certain sequences of sound more or less pleasing to us . that gas is ...
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... effect of the sun's heat . Thus the inhabitants of Venus and Mercury may enjoy a climate as genial as that of our own earth.1 We know so little of the planet Mercury that it would be idle to discuss at length the physical relations ...
... effect of the sun's heat . Thus the inhabitants of Venus and Mercury may enjoy a climate as genial as that of our own earth.1 We know so little of the planet Mercury that it would be idle to discuss at length the physical relations ...
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... effects of her proximity to the sun may be counteracted by a suitable diminution in the extent of her atmospheric envelope . So far , then , there is little which need render Venus a habitation unsuited to the wants of But , if the ...
... effects of her proximity to the sun may be counteracted by a suitable diminution in the extent of her atmospheric envelope . So far , then , there is little which need render Venus a habitation unsuited to the wants of But , if the ...
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... This circumstance has been pointed out by some astronomers as a convenient offset against the effects of his enormous distance from the sun . But it will not do to dwell too strongly on this point OTHER HABITABLE WORLDS . 39.
... This circumstance has been pointed out by some astronomers as a convenient offset against the effects of his enormous distance from the sun . But it will not do to dwell too strongly on this point OTHER HABITABLE WORLDS . 39.
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