Nature, Том 4Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1871 |
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... portion of the Tertiary periods may be during which the volcanic rocks of Eigg were produced , it is yet separated from our own day by an interval sufficient for the removal of mountains , the obliteration of valleys , and the ...
... portion of the Tertiary periods may be during which the volcanic rocks of Eigg were produced , it is yet separated from our own day by an interval sufficient for the removal of mountains , the obliteration of valleys , and the ...
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... portion of the population of the Northern Counties , and be directly useful to nearly all branches of Manufacturing and Agricultural , as well as of Mining and Engineering pursuits , it is believed that no difficulty will be found in ...
... portion of the population of the Northern Counties , and be directly useful to nearly all branches of Manufacturing and Agricultural , as well as of Mining and Engineering pursuits , it is believed that no difficulty will be found in ...
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... portion of the chemical curriculum in such an Institution than as a part of geology . Few geologists pretend to mineralogy beyond a sufficient knowledge of the general external characters of rocks for the recognition of the commoner ...
... portion of the chemical curriculum in such an Institution than as a part of geology . Few geologists pretend to mineralogy beyond a sufficient knowledge of the general external characters of rocks for the recognition of the commoner ...
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... portion of Quangtung Province , " " On the Coal - fields in the South Eastern Province of China , " and " On the Bituminous Coal Mines west of Pekin , " " On the Birds and Beasts of For- mosa , " " On Chinese Notions regarding Pigeons ...
... portion of Quangtung Province , " " On the Coal - fields in the South Eastern Province of China , " and " On the Bituminous Coal Mines west of Pekin , " " On the Birds and Beasts of For- mosa , " " On Chinese Notions regarding Pigeons ...
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... portions of phosphoric anhydride , potash , chlorine , and soda are obtained in the colloid fluid very similar to the ... portion of flesh insoluble in the preparation of the aqueous extract , and consisting of albumen and phosphoric ...
... portions of phosphoric anhydride , potash , chlorine , and soda are obtained in the colloid fluid very similar to the ... portion of flesh insoluble in the preparation of the aqueous extract , and consisting of albumen and phosphoric ...
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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.