The edition of 1849 may be regarded as historically the most important, from the mass of new critical material it used ; that of 1859 is distinguished from Tischendorf's other editions by coming nearer to the received text ; in the eighth edition, the testimony of the Sinaitic manuscript received great ( probably too great ) weight.

Few would dispute the verdict of James D. Forbes, an editor of the eighth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica: " His scientific glory is different in kind from that of Young and Fresnel ; but the discoverer of the law of polarization of biaxial crystals, of optical mineralogy, and of double refraction by compression, will always occupy a foremost rank in the intellectual history of the age.

United States version of the English text of the eighth edition ( 2006 ) of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures publication Le Système International d ’ Unités ( SI ) ( Special Publication 330 ).

The eighth edition introduced a unique system of perpetually updated case citations and cross-references to legal encyclopedias.

Herschel wrote many papers and articles, including entries on meteorology, physical geography and the telescope for the eighth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

* Baby and Child Care ( 1946, with revisions up to eighth edition, 2004 )

By the eighth edition ( 1853 – 1860 ), the encyclopedia said of the Noah story, " The insuperable difficulties connected with the belief that all other existing species of animals were provided for in the ark are obviated by adopting the suggestion of Bishop Stillingfleet, approved by Matthew Poole ... and others, that the Deluge did not extend beyond the region of the Earth then inhabited ".

The Model City Charter is in its eighth edition, adopted in 2003.

The eighth edition in 1889 was little changed from the 1881 version, though it was more embellished and featured several portraits of Whitman.

The English word dozen comes from the old form of the French word douzaine, meaning " a group of twelve " (" Assemblage de choses de même nature au nombre de douze "-( translation: A group of twelve things of the same nature as defined in the eighth edition of the Dictionnaire de l ' Académie française ).

Among the more important of his later writings were the articles on Aristotle, Plato and Socrates, contributed to the eighth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, and afterwards reprinted with additions under the title of The Fathers of Greek Philosophy ( Edinburgh, 1862 ).

now in its eighth edition.

It is now in its eighth edition and is known as the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

Skaven forces as of eighth edition, are currently composed of the following units ( for the standard army list )

* July 15-Publication of the eighth edition of Emil Kraepelin's Psychiatrie: Ein Lehrbuch für Studierende und Arzte, naming Alzheimer's disease as a variety of dementia.

She was once again featured in the 2010 edition for an eighth time.

In mid-1998 the movement experienced a massive internal upheaval as Sean Muttaqi returned to Hardline and with a group of new followers issued the eighth edition of " Vanguard " without warning Agranoff or the rest of the extant membership.

That volume was translated into Swedish, German and Japanese and the eighth edition in English was published in 1999.

* V8 Unix, the eighth edition Unix

Schlechter prepared the eighth and final edition of the famous Handbuch des Schachspiels openings treatise.

The eighth edition took place in Sri Lanka four years after the seventh edition in 2002.

His best known work is (‘ Devout musings on the four last things ’), first published in 1714, became a minor classic, with an eighth edition appearing in 1830, almost one hundred years after his death.

A two-CD edition of Give Out But Don't Give Up was released as part of a deluxe series consisting of their fourth through eighth albums.

In 1897 he was appointed the eighth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and served until his death in office in 1903, aged 82.

The play is Shaw's eighth, and after Richard Mansfield's original 1897 American production it was his first financial success, which helped to affirm his career as a playwright.

James Mitchell became the eighth Premier in 1896 but resigned in 1897 due to ill health and died shortly thereafter.

The modern student, who knows what was to come next, is likely to place first the factors of change which are visible in the eighth century.

Although it is not possible to sunder old and new in this era, I shall consider in the present chapter primarily the first decades of the eighth century and shall interpret them as an apogee of the first stage of Greek civilization.

the pottery of the first half of the eighth century is commonly called Ripe Geometric.

August ( ) is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days.

Herwig Wolfram opens his chapter on the eighth Visigothic king, " Alaric's reign gets no full treatment in the sources, and the little they do contain is overshadowed by his death in the Battle of Vouillé and the downfall of the Toulosan kingdom.

Since there are only seven hotel chains in the game, placing a tile that would create an eighth chain is not permitted.

There are seven districts ( with an eighth currently under construction ), each of which is divided into smaller suburbs, and most of which have a town centre which is the focus of commercial and social activities.

In the eighth episode of season 8, named " Manhattan Hillbillies ," Granny tells the police officer in Central Park that her family comes from Taney County ( which is in southwest Missouri ).

The Book of Habakkuk is the eighth book of the 12 minor prophets of the Hebrew Bible.

The book of Habakkuk is a book of the Tanakh ( the Old Testament ) and stands eighth in a section known as the 12 Minor Prophets in the Masoretic and Greek texts.

The Book of Habakkuk is the eighth book of the Twelve Prophets of the Hebrew Bible, and this collection appears in all copies of texts of the Septuagint, the Ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible completed by 132 BC.

It is a memorial to one " Dunoatus son of Mecagnus " and has been dated from the sixth to eighth centuries.

When a pawn advances to the eighth rank, as a part of the move it is promoted and must be exchanged for the player's choice of queen, rook, bishop, or knight of the same color.

Chile is the world's fifth largest Wine # Exporting countries | exporter of wine and the Wine # Production | eighth largest producer.

This problem leads to an equation of the eighth degree, of which one solution, the Earth's orbit, is known.

It is the eighth smallest constellation, with an area just less than that of Corona Australis.

Photius, writing in the 9th century, found various text appended to manuscripts of the seven canonical books, which lead Daniel Heinsius to suggest that the original eighth book is lost, and he identified the text purported to be from the eighth book as fragments of the Hypopotoses.

In the early 2000s Beck released what is considered to be his Magnum opus, his eighth studio album Sea Change.

Ecuador's economy is the eighth largest in Latin America and experienced an average growth of 4. 6 % between 2000 and 2006.

In the agricultural sector, Ecuador is a major exporter of bananas ( first place worldwide in production and export ), flowers, and the eighth largest producer of cocoa.

In Nihon Shoki, a book of Japanese history finished in the eighth century, it is said that the Empire of Japan was founded in 660 BC by Emperor Jimmu.