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共 32 段- A pupil, M. Leboullenger, met one evening in company this sa
- Of all these brigands those had the worst reputation who car
- Our looks were anxiously directed towards the port, to guess
- The Observatory at Paris is very near the barrier. In my you
- "Why? because that would ruin me. On the day of the marriage
- Immediately after my nomination, I was exposed to strange an
- A happy chance showed that the sciences might open an honour
- They here alluded to a promise of protection, support, coöpe
- Unfortunately, considerations of this sort, notwithstanding
- I have always regretted that the commissioners did not judge
- Nothing, in the marvels of somnambulism, raised more doubts
- The Marchioness of Créqui was a lady in the high circles of
- The political movement in 1789, had been preceded by two ver
- The illustrious Mayor of Paris had not the leisure to contin
- Bailly, as chief of the municipality, found himself at this
- The municipal body of Mélun had at that time an honest and v
- The very circumscribed list from which chance in 1793 and 17
- Crébillon obtained permission from the French Academy to mak
- [16] Sir W. Herschel had married Mary, the widow of John Pit
- A telescope does not magnify real objects only, but magnifie
- How happens it, after such exact observations, that few astr
- The first and second volumes of the _Mécanique Céleste_ were
- In this analysis we have merely glanced at the astronomical
- In the beginning of the year 1611, Galileo supposed that he
- If it be borne in mind, that this number is an inferior limi
- [28] It would appear that Hooke had conjectured that the fig
- _Limits of variation of the tropical year modified by the di
- A member of the popular society of Auxerre, Fourier exercise
- In order to exhibit, under one point of view, the various ad
- Between these two extreme positions, how does the diminution
- After having established that there is in our earth an inher
- We found ourselves seated at the same table. The guest from