The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtSimpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1872 |
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... observation and research , and the world of action with the means of carrying the messages of commerce and civilisation which have yet to cross the uncabled oceans that separate the families of the earth . ” The researches of Professor ...
... observation and research , and the world of action with the means of carrying the messages of commerce and civilisation which have yet to cross the uncabled oceans that separate the families of the earth . ” The researches of Professor ...
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... observed facts , so as to render it more independent of any ulterior suppositions which may be adopted respecting the nature of magnetism . On the sublime subject of Solar Heat , as modified by Pro- fessor Thomson , his main ...
... observed facts , so as to render it more independent of any ulterior suppositions which may be adopted respecting the nature of magnetism . On the sublime subject of Solar Heat , as modified by Pro- fessor Thomson , his main ...
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... observation ' presented to the eye . By this instrument a ray of light reflected from a tiny mirror sus- pended to a magnet , travels along a scale and indicates the resistance to the passage of the electric current though the cable by ...
... observation ' presented to the eye . By this instrument a ray of light reflected from a tiny mirror sus- pended to a magnet , travels along a scale and indicates the resistance to the passage of the electric current though the cable by ...
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... observed that at present the cork are not half the price of the horsehair mattresses .-- Times . THE LIME IN THE MORTAR . THE Rev. Canon Kingsley says , Lime is a metal called by chemists " calcium , " but it is never found in that form ...
... observed that at present the cork are not half the price of the horsehair mattresses .-- Times . THE LIME IN THE MORTAR . THE Rev. Canon Kingsley says , Lime is a metal called by chemists " calcium , " but it is never found in that form ...
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... observed on the Festiniog and other narrow Railways in India and elsewhere , and expressed his entire concurrence with Mr. Fairlie as regards the economy and capacity of the narrow gauge . He said that India was , as compared with ...
... observed on the Festiniog and other narrow Railways in India and elsewhere , and expressed his entire concurrence with Mr. Fairlie as regards the economy and capacity of the narrow gauge . He said that India was , as compared with ...
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Стр. 119 - The hypothesis that life originated on this earth through moss-grown fragments from the ruins of another world may seem wild and visionary; all I maintain is that it is not unscientific.
Стр. 119 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Стр. 119 - ... we must regard it as probable in the highest degree that there are countless seedbearing meteoric stones moving about through space. If at the present instant no life existed upon this earth, one such stone falling upon it might, by what we blindly call natural causes, lead to its becoming covered with vegetation.