| James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1850 - 696 pàgines
...of which so many expeditions to distant mountainous regions have been undertaken, has not made anv considerable progress for centuries past. The confidence...which they refuse to the physicist, they yield to the changes of the moon, and to certain days, marked iu the calendar by the superstitious of a by-gone... | |
| 1850 - 706 pàgines
...of which so many expeditions to distant mountainous regions have been undertaken, has not made any considerable progress for centuries past. The confidence...which they refuse to the physicist, they yield to the changes of the moon, and to certain days, marked in the calendar by the superstitious of a by-gone... | |
| Thomas Bassnett - 1854 - 266 pàgines
...changes, which would be so important for horticulture, agriculture, and navigation, no less than for the comfort and enjoyment of life. Those who place...this branch of knowledge. And it is not wonderful that the popular mind should expect a result which is so much in accordance with the wants of mankind.... | |
| 1857 - 664 pàgines
...than in the knowledge of the phenomena themselves, are firmly convinced that this branch of science has not made any very considerable progress for centuries...changes of the moon, and to certain days marked in the calendar by the superstition of a by-gone age."* The knowledge which we do possess of the climate of... | |
| 1857 - 664 pàgines
...than in the knowledge of the phenomena themselves, are firmly convinced that this branch of science has not made any very considerable progress for centuries...changes of the moon, and to certain days marked in the calendar by the superstition of a by-gone age."* The knowledge which we do possess of the climate of... | |
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