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Brewer's: Linnæan; System
A system devised by Linnæus; of Sweden, who arranged his three kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals into classes, orders, genera, species, and varieties, according to certain…Brewer's: Ptolemaic System
The system of Claudius Ptolemæus, a celebrated astronomer of Palusium, in Egypt, of the eleventh century. He taught that the earth is fixed in the centre of the universe, and the heavens…Brewer's: Pythagorean System
Pythagoras taught that the sun is a movable sphere in the centre of the universe, and that all the planets revolve round it. This is substantially the same as the Copernican and Newtonian…Brewer's: Spinoza's System
The “system of Spinoza” is that matter is eternal, and that the universe is God. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894SpinsterSpinning Jenny A B C D E F G…Brewer's: Continental System
A name given to Napoleon's plan for shutting out Great Britain from all commerce with the continent of Europe. He forbade under pain of war any nation of Europe to receive British exports…The National Park System
Source: Department of the Interior, National Park Service. NATIONAL PARKS A…Formation of the Solar System
Our solar system consists of one star (the Sun), eight planets and all their moons, three dwarf planets, and several thousand small solar system objects—…The International System (Metric)
Source: Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards. The International System of Units is a modernized version of the metric system, established by international agreement, that…New Planetary System
New planet has a mass 45 times that of Earth by Liz Olson Related Links 2007 Year in Review Roundup of Recent Science Milestones, 2007 New Planets and a…Trending
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