A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1872 - 511 páginas |
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... seems to imagine that the minor Societies themselves transfer their best papers to the Royal Society ; that if , for instance , the Astronomical Society were to receive from A. B. a paper of unusual merit , the Society would transfer it ...
... seems to imagine that the minor Societies themselves transfer their best papers to the Royal Society ; that if , for instance , the Astronomical Society were to receive from A. B. a paper of unusual merit , the Society would transfer it ...
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... seems , at most a simple priest , though the Pope was not sure even of that -to Rome to answer the charge of maintaining that there is another world ( mundus ) under our earth ( terra ) , with another sun and another moon . Nothing more ...
... seems , at most a simple priest , though the Pope was not sure even of that -to Rome to answer the charge of maintaining that there is another world ( mundus ) under our earth ( terra ) , with another sun and another moon . Nothing more ...
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... seems to be ridicule thrown on the idea of the earth's roundness . Ptolemy , without reference to the antipodes , describes the extent of the inhabited part of the globe in a way which shows that he could have had no objection to men ...
... seems to be ridicule thrown on the idea of the earth's roundness . Ptolemy , without reference to the antipodes , describes the extent of the inhabited part of the globe in a way which shows that he could have had no objection to men ...
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... seems to indicate - but not with certainty - that Virgil maintained the antipodes that his ignorant contemporaries travestied his theory into that of an underground cosmos ; that the Pope cited him to Rome to explain his system , which ...
... seems to indicate - but not with certainty - that Virgil maintained the antipodes that his ignorant contemporaries travestied his theory into that of an underground cosmos ; that the Pope cited him to Rome to explain his system , which ...
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... seems more accurate , but has nothing to do with Archimedes ; for , as before said , he aimed only at going near enough for the wants of life . Neither is Porus of Nicæa fair when he takes Archimedes to task for not giving a line ...
... seems more accurate , but has nothing to do with Archimedes ; for , as before said , he aimed only at going near enough for the wants of life . Neither is Porus of Nicæa fair when he takes Archimedes to task for not giving a line ...
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