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  • By way of Introduction to his Korân Marracci published a companion folio volume called Prodromus which contains practically all that was known in his day regarding Muhammad and the Religion of Islam.

    The Koran (Al-Qur'an) George Sale 1716

  • The Prodromus is the founding text of paleontology and dynamic geology; it is, with the work of Erasmus Bartholin on Iceland spar, one of the founding works of crystallography.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • The Prodromus is the founding text of paleontology and dynamic geology; it is, with the work of Erasmus Bartholin on Iceland spar, one of the founding works of crystallography.

    Meet Nicholas Steno 2005

  • De Candolle even mentions it in his 'Prodromus' as a distinct variety, under the name of _gynantherus_.

    Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

  • The problem which Kepler attempted to solve in the "Prodromus" was no less than the determination of the harmonic relations of the distances of the planets, which it was given him to solve more than twenty years afterwards.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

  • "Prodromus" was the first comprehensive history of literature, chronologically arranged.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • Candolle in his "Prodromus" mentions the pistilloid wall-flowers as a distinct [371] variety, under the name of _Cheiranthus Cheiri gynantherus_, and the analogous form of the opium-poppy is not at all an accidental anomaly, but an old true horticultural variety, which can be bought everywhere under the names of _Papaver somniferum monstruosum_ or

    Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

  • At the time of his father's death, in 1841, seven volumes of the "Prodromus" had appeared: Alphonse completed the seventeenth volume in 1873.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

  • On the publication of the "Prodromus," Hafenreffer wrote to warn him: -- "God forbid you should endeavor to bring your hypothesis openly into argument with the Holy Scriptures!

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

  • To the sixteenth volume of Decandolle's "Prodromus", Parlatore contributed the accounts of the coniferi and gnetaceæ; to Webb's "Histoire naturelle des îles

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

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