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Scientific American, Vol. 30, No. 23 (1874) (1874)

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of my demonstration was to his celebrated experiment of swinging a pendulum from the its orbital motion round the luminary. No reflecting ob- prove that such #s the fact, my figures showing that,although dome of the Panthéon in Paris, simply intended to furnish server, aware of the actual amount of… … globe and the circular cistern which con- will attain in our northern latitudes will tains the mercury. Two spheroidal render it difficult to obtain good views, Moreover, on account of the ellipticity of the orbits of Mars. cavities, it willbe seen, are formed in the globe, the upper solar…

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