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... manner in which both this great man and many others , possessing a portion of his observant and inventive genius , have availed themselves , for the enlargement of the boundaries of philo- sophy , of such common occurrences as , from ...
... manner in which both this great man and many others , possessing a portion of his observant and inventive genius , have availed themselves , for the enlargement of the boundaries of philo- sophy , of such common occurrences as , from ...
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... manner of looking at them , and , as it were , by the aid of a light of its own which it sheds upon their worn and obliterated lineaments . From one of these simple incidents Sir Isaac Newton is said to have read to the world , for the ...
... manner of looking at them , and , as it were , by the aid of a light of its own which it sheds upon their worn and obliterated lineaments . From one of these simple incidents Sir Isaac Newton is said to have read to the world , for the ...
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... manner , retained in their orbits by a similar tendency towards their central and ruling luminary . Proceeding then , in the meantime , upon this suppo- sition , he found by calculation , and by comparing the periods of the several ...
... manner , retained in their orbits by a similar tendency towards their central and ruling luminary . Proceeding then , in the meantime , upon this suppo- sition , he found by calculation , and by comparing the periods of the several ...
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... manner , with regard to the law of gravitation : the fact of bodies generally having a tendency to fall to the earth , must of course have forced itself upon the attention of the very earliest inhabi- tants of our globe , every day and ...
... manner , with regard to the law of gravitation : the fact of bodies generally having a tendency to fall to the earth , must of course have forced itself upon the attention of the very earliest inhabi- tants of our globe , every day and ...
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... manner with little holes , which being inked and laid upon paper , would undoubtedly produce a black impression ; while , by cutting or scraping away , in different degrees , such parts of the surface as might be required , the paper ...
... manner with little holes , which being inked and laid upon paper , would undoubtedly produce a black impression ; while , by cutting or scraping away , in different degrees , such parts of the surface as might be required , the paper ...
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