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... velocity of light . We believe that Dr. Huggins was the first who put the idea forward in this practical form . Professor Maxwell made the requisite mathematical inquiries , and confirmed Dr. Huggins's view ; and as everyone knows , or ...
... velocity of light . We believe that Dr. Huggins was the first who put the idea forward in this practical form . Professor Maxwell made the requisite mathematical inquiries , and confirmed Dr. Huggins's view ; and as everyone knows , or ...
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... too in passing how vastly the rate of motion exceeds anything we recognise in the trades or counter - trades . Both these classes of winds are of small velocity , whereas the imagined winds of Jupiter must A MINIATURE SUN . 133.
... too in passing how vastly the rate of motion exceeds anything we recognise in the trades or counter - trades . Both these classes of winds are of small velocity , whereas the imagined winds of Jupiter must A MINIATURE SUN . 133.
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... velocity of 92 miles per hour is indeed equivalent , Sir John Herschel has stated , to a hurricane producing universal desolation , sweeping away buildings , and tearing up trees . Such hurricanes last , too , but for a few hours . But ...
... velocity of 92 miles per hour is indeed equivalent , Sir John Herschel has stated , to a hurricane producing universal desolation , sweeping away buildings , and tearing up trees . Such hurricanes last , too , but for a few hours . But ...
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... velocity of advance is equivalent to no less than 637 miles per hour , or is more than four times as great as even that swift advance which Baxendell had noted in the case of the equatorial end of the great Jovian rift . The significant ...
... velocity of advance is equivalent to no less than 637 miles per hour , or is more than four times as great as even that swift advance which Baxendell had noted in the case of the equatorial end of the great Jovian rift . The significant ...
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... velocity with which they move , their size and weight , nay , the very substances of which they are composed ; they have discovered laws regulating the numbers and paths of those visitors ; they have analysed aërolites chemically and ...
... velocity with which they move , their size and weight , nay , the very substances of which they are composed ; they have discovered laws regulating the numbers and paths of those visitors ; they have analysed aërolites chemically and ...
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