The Moon Hoax, Or, A Discovery that the Moon Has a Vast Population of Human BeingsW. Gowans, 1859 - 63 стор. |
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... surface on which it was to be viewed under the revivifying light of the microscopic reflectors . In the various experiments made during the few following weeks , the co - operative philosophers decided that a medium of the purest plate ...
... surface on which it was to be viewed under the revivifying light of the microscopic reflectors . In the various experiments made during the few following weeks , the co - operative philosophers decided that a medium of the purest plate ...
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... surface . Having witnessed the completion of this great lens , and its safe transportation to the metropolis , his next care was the construction of a suitable microscope , and of the mechanical frame - work for the horizontal and ...
... surface . Having witnessed the completion of this great lens , and its safe transportation to the metropolis , his next care was the construction of a suitable microscope , and of the mechanical frame - work for the horizontal and ...
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... surface , with the distinctness both of outline and detail which could be procured of a terrestrial object at the distance of two and a half miles ; an optical phenomenon which you will find demonstrated in Note 5. This afforded us the ...
... surface , with the distinctness both of outline and detail which could be procured of a terrestrial object at the distance of two and a half miles ; an optical phenomenon which you will find demonstrated in Note 5. This afforded us the ...
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... surface upon the field of view , and reducing it to a slow movement , we soon found the first very singularly shaped object of our inquiry . It is a highly mountainous district , the loftier chains of which form three narrow ovals , two ...
... surface upon the field of view , and reducing it to a slow movement , we soon found the first very singularly shaped object of our inquiry . It is a highly mountainous district , the loftier chains of which form three narrow ovals , two ...
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... surface , not even excepting her largest seas and lakes , in which circular or oval mountainous ridges may not be easily found ; and many , very many of these having numerous enclosed hills in full volcanic operation , which are now ...
... surface , not even excepting her largest seas and lakes , in which circular or oval mountainous ridges may not be easily found ; and many , very many of these having numerous enclosed hills in full volcanic operation , which are now ...
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