Memoirs of Science and the Arts, Or, a General Abridgement of the Transactions Published by the Principal Learned and Oeconomical Societies Established in the Different Parts of the World: Consisting of a Number of Curious and Interesting Articles in Agriculture, Botany, History, Antiquities ... : the Whole Selected with Judgment from the Transactions of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies of London and Edinburgh ...

Memoirs of Science and the Arts, Or, a General Abridgement of the Transactions Published by the Principal Learned and Oeconomical Societies Established in the Different Parts of the World: Consisting of a Number of Curious and Interesting Articles in Agriculture, Botany, History, Antiquities ... : the Whole Selected with Judgment from the Transactions of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies of London and Edinburgh ...
Published on: 1798
Page Count: 864 pages
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... cafe is different ; there are alfo fome variations in the two almanacs . No ... calendar contains one page for each half of the month , and is divided into ... astrology . MRi XXI . On Evaporation . By JOHN ANDREW DE Luc , Efq ...

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