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Side vi
... theory of tides to a simple form , and investigating the cohesion and capillary action of fluids , he anticipated the conclusions of Laplace . To these may be added , many comparative and useful experiments on the , elasticity of steam ...
... theory of tides to a simple form , and investigating the cohesion and capillary action of fluids , he anticipated the conclusions of Laplace . To these may be added , many comparative and useful experiments on the , elasticity of steam ...
Side ix
... theory of chlorine and its compounds . When we consider the talent and experimental skill which was long ranged on the other side of this intricate question ; when we recollect that the chym- ists the Royal Institution . ix.
... theory of chlorine and its compounds . When we consider the talent and experimental skill which was long ranged on the other side of this intricate question ; when we recollect that the chym- ists the Royal Institution . ix.
Side x
... theory received additional support from new analogies , the strongest and most convincing . The theory of definite proportion , the effect of which , in advancing the interests of chymistry , can only be compared to the revolution ...
... theory received additional support from new analogies , the strongest and most convincing . The theory of definite proportion , the effect of which , in advancing the interests of chymistry , can only be compared to the revolution ...
Side 1
... Theory of Vi- sion , it seems to have been unanimously admitted by philoso- phers , that our visual perceptions undergo , in the progress of experience , an important and extraordinary revolution . The eye originally perceives only ...
... Theory of Vi- sion , it seems to have been unanimously admitted by philoso- phers , that our visual perceptions undergo , in the progress of experience , an important and extraordinary revolution . The eye originally perceives only ...
Side 2
... theory has been received with general assent . Distance and magnitude , are according to his perceptions , acquired by the sense of touch . When we have learned by touch the real magnitude of an object , the visual or apparent magnitude ...
... theory has been received with general assent . Distance and magnitude , are according to his perceptions , acquired by the sense of touch . When we have learned by touch the real magnitude of an object , the visual or apparent magnitude ...
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Side 80 - To me, sir, it appears that the Author of Nature has marked our limits in the south, by the Gulf of Mexico; and on the north, by the regions of eternal frost.
Side 364 - ... material creation, and at another with the endless subordination of animal life ; and, what is yet of more importance, might supply the decays of nature, and succour old age with subsidiary sight. Thus was the first artificer in glass employed, though without his own knowledge or expectation. He was facilitating and prolonging the enjoyment of light, enlarging the avenues of science, and conferring the highest and most lasting pleasures ; he was enabling the student to contemplate nature, and...
Side 363 - Who, when he saw the first sand or ashes, by a casual intenseness of heat, melted into a metalline form, rugged with excrescences, and clouded with impurities, would have imagined, that in this shapeless lump lay concealed so many conveniencies of life, as would in time constitute a great part of the happiness of the world...
Side 370 - Observations on the Temperature of the Ocean and Atmosphere, and on the Density of Sea-water, made during a Voyage to Ceylon. In a Letter to Sir Humphrey Davy, LL.DFRS By John Davy, MDFRS—22.
Side 232 - The Botanist's Companion; or an Introduction to the Knowledge of Practical Botany, and the Uses of Plants, either growing wild in Great Britain, or cultivated for the Purposes of Agriculture, Medicine, Rural Economy, or the Arts, on a new Plan.
Side 235 - A Treatise on the Diseases of Arteries and Veins; containing the Pathology and Treatment of Aneurisms and wounded Arteries. By Joseph Hodgson, Member of the Iloyul College of Surgeons in London.
Side x - For such a long-oppressed right. Bacon, at last, a mighty man, arose, Whom a wise king and nature chose Lord Chancellor of both their laws, And boldly undertook the injured pupil's cause.
Side 90 - ... she tries to imitate ; but she had become sickly, and longed to revisit her native country ; her husband also, who had spent many years amongst the Indians, was become weary of a civilized life.
Side 373 - From the series of observations made at and below London Bridge, compared with the river as far up as Kew and Oxford, Mr. Stevenson is of opinion that the waters of the Thames seldom change, but are probably carried up and down with the turn of the alternate tides for an indefinite period, which he is of opinion may be one, if not the principal, cause of what is termed the extreme softness of the waters of the Thames. Mr. Stevenson has made similar experiments on the Rivers Forth ,and Tay, and at...
Side 359 - ... hardness, transparency, or opacity; lustre, taste, smell, elasticity, weight, or specific gravity; magnetism, electricity, and phosphorescence. No doubt, most of these terms are clearly understood by our readers; but some of them may require a little explanation. By specific gravity, is meant the weight of any substance compared with the weight of an equal bulk of distilled water ; which, as the standard of comparison, is called one. Thus, if the weight of a cubic inch of...