A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1872 - 511 páginas |
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... never seen more than one such magnitude of either kind ; and if the fly were to endeavour to persuade me that he was larger than the elephant , I might by possibility be placed in a difficulty . The apparently little creature might use ...
... never seen more than one such magnitude of either kind ; and if the fly were to endeavour to persuade me that he was larger than the elephant , I might by possibility be placed in a difficulty . The apparently little creature might use ...
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... never searched for them , never made up my mind to look out for this book or that . I have bought what happened to come in my way at shop or auction ; I have retained what came in as part of the undescribed portion of miscellaneous ...
... never searched for them , never made up my mind to look out for this book or that . I have bought what happened to come in my way at shop or auction ; I have retained what came in as part of the undescribed portion of miscellaneous ...
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... never cared to preserve astrology . The mechanists make models , and not books . The infallible winners - though I have seen a few - think their secret too valuable , and prefer mutare quadrata rotundis - to turn dice into coin - at the ...
... never cared to preserve astrology . The mechanists make models , and not books . The infallible winners - though I have seen a few - think their secret too valuable , and prefer mutare quadrata rotundis - to turn dice into coin - at the ...
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... never seen it . This White ( Albius ) is the only quad- rator who was ever convinced of his error . My Jesuit was struck by the instance , and promised to read more geometry - he was no Clavius - before he published his book . He ...
... never seen it . This White ( Albius ) is the only quad- rator who was ever convinced of his error . My Jesuit was struck by the instance , and promised to read more geometry - he was no Clavius - before he published his book . He ...
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... never have been seen by him at all . Pos- sibly , the insertion or omission would not have been made if the editor could have had one minute's conversation with his contributor . Some- times it actually contradicts something which is ...
... never have been seen by him at all . Pos- sibly , the insertion or omission would not have been made if the editor could have had one minute's conversation with his contributor . Some- times it actually contradicts something which is ...
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A Budget of Paradoxes Volume 2 David Eugene Smith,Augustus de Morgan,Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan Pré-visualização indisponível - 2015 |
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