Nature, Том 4Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1871 |
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... question , that he saw a very faint arch in the castern sky on the afternoon of the 10th inst . ( about 4.30 P.M. ) . There were no clouds near it , while the background was a beau- tiful azure . The colour of the arch was of a much ...
... question , that he saw a very faint arch in the castern sky on the afternoon of the 10th inst . ( about 4.30 P.M. ) . There were no clouds near it , while the background was a beau- tiful azure . The colour of the arch was of a much ...
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... question is not a " sedimentary rock ; " that it occupies , or rather occupied , ( for it has been for the most part removed ) pockets or oven- shaped cavities , which were once plainly overarched by gneiss ; that it is foliated , there ...
... question is not a " sedimentary rock ; " that it occupies , or rather occupied , ( for it has been for the most part removed ) pockets or oven- shaped cavities , which were once plainly overarched by gneiss ; that it is foliated , there ...
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... question by M. Delaunay , but the fundamental idea . M. Delaunay says the fluid will have precisely the same motion as the crust ; and that , because the new motion of the crust is so slow . But it is clear that its slowness has nothing ...
... question by M. Delaunay , but the fundamental idea . M. Delaunay says the fluid will have precisely the same motion as the crust ; and that , because the new motion of the crust is so slow . But it is clear that its slowness has nothing ...
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... question to new localities . There is , however , one fish that is of great value , and which can be intro- duced without as much doubt of the propriety of the act as exists in regard to the pike . We refer to the black bass ( Grystes ...
... question to new localities . There is , however , one fish that is of great value , and which can be intro- duced without as much doubt of the propriety of the act as exists in regard to the pike . We refer to the black bass ( Grystes ...
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... question , and all the less just because the very branch of research in which the author is most eminent is that of which he speaks the least . Only one chapter and part of another are given to spec- trum analysis of the solar light and ...
... question , and all the less just because the very branch of research in which the author is most eminent is that of which he speaks the least . Only one chapter and part of another are given to spec- trum analysis of the solar light and ...
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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.