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Excerpt from Celtic Place-Names in Aberdeenshire: With a Vocabulary of Gaelic Words, Not in Dictionaries, the Meaning and Etymology of the Gaelic Names of Places in Aberdeenshire This book is intended to give the meaning and the etymology, so far as they can be discovered, of all the Gaelic names of the places on the six-inch Ordnance Survey maps of Aberdeenshire. Some names have been added from old books and maps. It was necessary to examine...

Excerpt from Seismology Although several chapters in the present volume bear the same title as those in a. Work upon Earthquakes and other Earth Movements written for the International Scientific Series' in 1883, it will be found that the subject matter Of these largely consists of Observations which are not only new, but more extensive and trustworthy than were formerly obtainable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of ...

Excerpt from Aberdeen: Topographical, Antiquarian, and Historical Papers on the City of Aberdeen This volume consists of a series of papers on Aberdeen which were written for a newspaper without any intention of reproducing them in book form. They have been reprinted in compliance with many requests from persons who wished to preserve them. This has been done not very willingly. The papers would have required to be rearranged and condensed in...

Excerpt from Notes on Crystallography and Crystallo-Physics: Being the Substance of Lectures Delivered at Yedo, During the Years 1876-77The following notes on Crystallographical calculations have been written for those students who wish to know the general principles which these calculations involve, rather than for those who wish actually to employ them. The system that has been followed is that of Prof. Miller. In this system the symbols of ...

Excerpt from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times Others of the Greek texts have not been reprinted since the sixteenth century, and bristle with the ingenious but at first perplexing shorthand contractions with which the Renaissance typographer imitated the Compendia of the manuscripts. These difficulties can be got over with patience, however, and the waste of gray matter necessary as a preliminary is not out of proportion to the r...

Excerpt from An Elementary Treatise on Cross-Ratio Geometry: With Historical Notes The development of the theory of cross-ratio is due, quite independently of each other, to Mobius, Der barycentrische Calcul, 1827, and to Chasles, Apercu Historique, 1829 - 1837, followed by the Geometric Supérieure, 1852, where the subject is treated very fully as regards the point and straight line, its application to the conic being given in the Traite des ...

Excerpt from Industrial Employment of Women: In the Middle and Lower RanksIt would betoken a hardihood of conviction we do not care to claim, had we not oftener than once paused.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the w...

Excerpt from Earthquakes and Other Earth MovementsThese comprise Earthquakes, or the sudden violent movements of the ground Earth Tremors, or minute move ments which escape our attention by the smallness of their amplitude, Earth Pulsations, or movements which are overlooked on account of the length of their period, and lastly, Earth Oscillations, or movements of long period and large amplitude which attract so much attention from their geolog...

Der grosse Kinoerfolg mit Winnie Puh, Tigger und allen anderen lustigen Freunden aus dem Hundert-Morgen-Wald erzählt in warmherzigem Stil eine einfühlsame Geschichte über Freundschaft und Zusammenhalt. Untermalt wird der Film durch wunderbare Musik aus der Feder der Oscar-prämierten Sherman Brüder.Hüpfen, lachen, Späße machen - das sind Tiggers liebste Sachen. Doch leider sind alle seine Freunde mit den Vorbereitungen für den Winter beschäftig...

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Excerpt from A Catalogue of Destructive Earthquakes, A. D. 7 to A. D. 1899 Although much time has been expended on the analyses of these catalogues it is not surprising to find that the outcome has been more suggestive than definitive, and but little has been learned. The present Catalogue is an attempt to give a list of earthquakes which have announced changes of geological im portance in the earth's crust, movements which have probably res...

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Excerpt from Solutions of Weekly Problem PapersOwing to the nature of the present work it is impossible for me to expect that it is quite free from errors due to transcription. It is hoped, however, that the context will allow them to be corrected without difficulty. At the same time I should be glad to receive notice of any errors, or of suggested improvements in any of the methods employed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundred...

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