Nature, Том 4Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1871 |
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... Experiments on Colour , 346 Allen ( Nathaniel , M.D. ) on the Laws of Population , 462 , 463 Alpine Floras , 162 ... Experimental Mechanics , " 510 Barker ( G. F. , M.D. ) on Elementary Chemistry , 4 Barometer in Polar Regions and ...
... Experiments on Colour , 346 Allen ( Nathaniel , M.D. ) on the Laws of Population , 462 , 463 Alpine Floras , 162 ... Experimental Mechanics , " 510 Barker ( G. F. , M.D. ) on Elementary Chemistry , 4 Barometer in Polar Regions and ...
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... experiments from being exhi- bited which are almost essential for thorough teaching . As a means of improving the system of education by supplying a better class of lectures on some subjects than those at present given , and at the same ...
... experiments from being exhi- bited which are almost essential for thorough teaching . As a means of improving the system of education by supplying a better class of lectures on some subjects than those at present given , and at the same ...
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... experiments to prove that the quality of colour can vary in three and only in three independent ways . One way of expressing this is by saying , with the painters , that colour may vary in hue , tint , and shade . The finest example of ...
... experiments to prove that the quality of colour can vary in three and only in three independent ways . One way of expressing this is by saying , with the painters , that colour may vary in hue , tint , and shade . The finest example of ...
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... experiments being also given , extending the observations to 1000 Cent . These results are planned on a diagram ... experimental data at low temperatures supplied by Dr. Matthiessen , and with the author's experimental results , ranging ...
... experiments being also given , extending the observations to 1000 Cent . These results are planned on a diagram ... experimental data at low temperatures supplied by Dr. Matthiessen , and with the author's experimental results , ranging ...
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... experiments of Mr. Galton , nor any other experiments that may be devised , will over- throw this doctrine . The provisional hypothesis of pangenesis is perfectly safe , and will withstand every attack that may be made . It cannot be ...
... experiments of Mr. Galton , nor any other experiments that may be devised , will over- throw this doctrine . The provisional hypothesis of pangenesis is perfectly safe , and will withstand every attack that may be made . It cannot be ...
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Стр. 268 - Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Стр. 268 - It is interesting to contemplate an entangled 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...
Стр. 260 - ... shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took ; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving ; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die.
Стр. 264 - I am purposing them, to be considered of and examined, an account of a philosophical discovery which induced me to the making of the said telescope ; and I doubt not but will prove much more grateful than the communication of that instrument ; being in my judgment the oddest, if not the most considerable detection which hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature.
Стр. 263 - Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.
Стр. 260 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What needst thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Стр. 293 - But expectation is permissible where belief is not; and if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man may recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter.
Стр. 30 - If we consider the heavens, the work of his fingers, the moon and the stars which he has ordained...
Стр. 198 - I2mo. With Illustrations. Cloth, $2.00. " The present volume is for the most part a record of bodily action, written partly to preserve to myself the memory of strong and joyous hours, and partly for the pleasure of those who find exhilaration in descriptions associated with mountain-life.
Стр. 268 - ... have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own, we must regard it as probable in the highest degree that there are countless seed-bearing 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.