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After much exciting hounds-and-fox action on Earth, Bravais is himself eventually harvested, waking as a cybernetic tank on a lunar battlefield.
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What Bravais quickly discovers is a conspiracy by aliens and their human confederates to harvest brains as onboard guidance units for weapons in an interstellar war.
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As early as 1850 Bravais had introduced into crystallography the assumption that the atoms composing the various crystals are arranged in regular groups, so-called three-dimensional lattices or space-lattices, whose constants could be calculated with the aid of crystallographic data.
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Lottin and Bravais, who have observed more than a hundred and forty aurorae boreales.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various
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Lottier and Bravais, who have observed so great a number of aurorae, ever heard it; and a great many others are in this case.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various
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In 1850, Auguste Bravais had suggested that crystals are made up from atoms arranged in regularly ordered, repeating geometric patterns in three dimensions – known because of their appearance as space-lattice structures.
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A conical pendulum was set in motion by Bravais in the same meridian room of the observatory and in the same year as the vertical pendulum of Foucault.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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Onnes, comprises those of Foucault and Bravais as special cases, and in general all the movements between the plane and the circular pendulum vibrations (see "Specola Vaticana", I, 1911, Appendix 1).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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Bravais and Martins, in one of their scientific ascents, noticed it under specially favorable circumstances, the shadow being thrown upon the snow-covered mountains, and gradually rising in the atmosphere until it reached a height of 1°, still remaining quite visible.
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880
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Bravais, and Siljerstrom, who spent a winter at Bosekop, on the coast of
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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