Americanized Encyclopaedia Britannica: Revised and Amended : a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature to which is Added Biographies of Living Subjects, 96 Colored Maps and Numerous Illustrations, Volume 7Belford-Clarke Company, 1890 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Page 3871
... known to have collected books are Pisistratus , Polycrates of Samos , Euclid the Athenian , Nicocrates of Cyprus , Euripides and Aristotle . At Cnidus there is said to have been a special collection of works upon medicine . Pisistratus ...
... known to have collected books are Pisistratus , Polycrates of Samos , Euclid the Athenian , Nicocrates of Cyprus , Euripides and Aristotle . At Cnidus there is said to have been a special collection of works upon medicine . Pisistratus ...
Page 3876
... known as the Appartamento Borgia . The printed books only are on open shelves , the MSS . being preserved in closed cases . The present official estimate of the number of printed volumes is about 220,000 , including 2,500 fifteenth ...
... known as the Appartamento Borgia . The printed books only are on open shelves , the MSS . being preserved in closed cases . The present official estimate of the number of printed volumes is about 220,000 , including 2,500 fifteenth ...
Page 3890
... known that they are perennial plants in the widest sense of the term , and that , though in the earlier stages of their existence their growth is comparatively rapid , yet this becomes ex- tremely slow when they arrive at a certain age ...
... known that they are perennial plants in the widest sense of the term , and that , though in the earlier stages of their existence their growth is comparatively rapid , yet this becomes ex- tremely slow when they arrive at a certain age ...
Page 3891
... known to be possessed of most useful nutritious species is Cetraria islandica , any poisonous properties , although Chlorca vulpina is " Iceland moss , " which , after being deprived of its believed by the Swedes to be destructive to ...
... known to be possessed of most useful nutritious species is Cetraria islandica , any poisonous properties , although Chlorca vulpina is " Iceland moss , " which , after being deprived of its believed by the Swedes to be destructive to ...
Page 3892
... known , they are very limited in number tant parts of the world . Most of these , however , of an ( e.g. , Lecidea Bouteillei , Strigula ) . With the excep- earlier date , are to be used with great caution , as the tion of these last ...
... known , they are very limited in number tant parts of the world . Most of these , however , of an ( e.g. , Lecidea Bouteillei , Strigula ) . With the excep- earlier date , are to be used with great caution , as the tion of these last ...
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