Lexicographical Neighbors of Punctule
Literary usage of Punctule
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Review of the North American Species of Agabus: Together with a by Henry Clinton Fall (1922)
"... discernible than in the species mentioned, each punctule occupying the center
of one of the minute areolae, which it so nearly fills as to preclude the ..."
2. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1857)
"... what is the earth and the ambient air, with respect to the immensity of the
universe ? It is a point, a punctule, or something, if there be anything, ..."
3. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1857)
"... a punctule, or something, if there be anything, still less. As our light and
heavy bodies tend to the center of our earth, it is credible that the sun, ..."
4. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1859)
"It is a point, a punctule, or something, if there be any thing, still less.
As our light and heavy bodies tend to ..."
5. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1858)
"It is a point, a punctule, or something, if there be any thing, still less.
As our light and heavy bodies tend to ..."
6. Elements of Physiophilosophy by Lorenz Oken (1847)
"The earth is only one small punctule of contraction wrought in a-ther-spacc by
the agency of light. Again, it was without doubt a single central tension, ..."
7. A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe by John William Draper (1875)
"It is a point, a punctule, or something, if there be any thing, less." It had
been brought down to the condition of one of the members of a family—the solar ..."
8. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe by John William Draper (1899)
"It is a point, a punctule, or something, if there be a.ny thing, less." It had
been brought down to the condition of one of the members of a family—the ..."
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