History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volumen2Harper, 1876 |
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... Plants and Animals . — Animals are Aggregates of Matter expending Force originally derived from the Sun. THE ORGANIC SERIES . - Man a Member of it . - His Position determined by Anatomical and Physiological Investigation of his Nervous ...
... Plants and Animals . — Animals are Aggregates of Matter expending Force originally derived from the Sun. THE ORGANIC SERIES . - Man a Member of it . - His Position determined by Anatomical and Physiological Investigation of his Nervous ...
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... plants , introducing very many new ones , they likewise paid great attention to the breeding of cattle , especially the sheep and horse . To them we owe the introduction of the great products , rice , sugar , cotton , and also , as we ...
... plants , introducing very many new ones , they likewise paid great attention to the breeding of cattle , especially the sheep and horse . To them we owe the introduction of the great products , rice , sugar , cotton , and also , as we ...
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... plants , was well acquainted with what is called the sleep of flowers , studied their opening and closing . He under- stood that the sap is diminished in volume by evaporation from the leaves . He was the first to use the word ...
... plants , was well acquainted with what is called the sleep of flowers , studied their opening and closing . He under- stood that the sap is diminished in volume by evaporation from the leaves . He was the first to use the word ...
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... plants . " On plateaus at a great elevation above the sea there were villages and even cities . Thus the plain upon which Quito stands , under the equator , is nearly ten thousand feet high . So great was their industry that the ...
... plants . " On plateaus at a great elevation above the sea there were villages and even cities . Thus the plain upon which Quito stands , under the equator , is nearly ten thousand feet high . So great was their industry that the ...
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... plants deco- rated the niches of its walls ; it had an endless labyrinth of gorgeous chambers , and here and there shady crypts for quiet retirement . Its baths were great golden bowls . It was embosomed in artificial forests . The ...
... plants deco- rated the niches of its walls ; it had an endless labyrinth of gorgeous chambers , and here and there shady crypts for quiet retirement . Its baths were great golden bowls . It was embosomed in artificial forests . The ...
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A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volumen2 John William Draper Vista completa - 1914 |
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Página 270 - Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon.
Página 270 - To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and directed to contrary pans.
Página 36 - Cholmeley, had permitted it to be converted, from a free grammar-school, into a mere charity school, in which the children of the poor were taught to read English, and to write, upon the plan adopted in the national schools ; that the master, though he received a salary of £250, did not devote his time to the business of the school, but employed for that purpose an illiterate person as usher ; that, instead of considering the school as the primary object...
Página 31 - ... vaulted with stained glass, speckled with gold, over which streams of water were made to gush; the floors and walls were of exquisite mosaic. Here a fountain of quicksilver shot up in a glistening spray, the glittering particles falling with a tranquil sound like fairy bells...