Nature, Том 4Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1871 |
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... knowledge rendered it impossible for of having been the first to break through this absurd. Of Nature trusts the mind which builds for aye . " - WORDSWORTH FIG . 1 - MIRAGE IN THE SKY , AS. THURSDAY , MAY 4 , 1871 it furnished him with ...
... knowledge rendered it impossible for of having been the first to break through this absurd. Of Nature trusts the mind which builds for aye . " - WORDSWORTH FIG . 1 - MIRAGE IN THE SKY , AS. THURSDAY , MAY 4 , 1871 it furnished him with ...
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... knowledge in particular branches of science , to accept them , but to provide ample funds to admit of their copious illustration , and for the purchase of expensive apparatus apparatus which the smaller schools now find it difficult or ...
... knowledge in particular branches of science , to accept them , but to provide ample funds to admit of their copious illustration , and for the purchase of expensive apparatus apparatus which the smaller schools now find it difficult or ...
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... knowledge which is practically unattain- able , and would have had no important bearing on the main question . I may go even further . I may say that , from a general point of view , isolated local registers have no value at all ...
... knowledge which is practically unattain- able , and would have had no important bearing on the main question . I may go even further . I may say that , from a general point of view , isolated local registers have no value at all ...
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... knowledge . 1. Pure and Applied Mathematics . Chemistry . 3. Experimental Philosophy . 4. Geology , Mineralogy , and Biology . Professorships and Lecture- ships will be founded on these subjects . It is proposed that the course of study ...
... knowledge . 1. Pure and Applied Mathematics . Chemistry . 3. Experimental Philosophy . 4. Geology , Mineralogy , and Biology . Professorships and Lecture- ships will be founded on these subjects . It is proposed that the course of study ...
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... knowledge of popular astronomy and of mechanical action is quite competent to form a good opinion on the point in dispute . What Mr. Hopkins did idea , which was to be the basis of his calculation ; and may be divided into two parts ...
... knowledge of popular astronomy and of mechanical action is quite competent to form a good opinion on the point in dispute . What Mr. Hopkins did idea , which was to be the basis of his calculation ; and may be divided into two parts ...
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Стр. 269 - 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. 261 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Стр. 269 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the 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. 264 - Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific 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. 265 - 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. 269 - Hence and because we all confidently believe that there are at present, and 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.
Стр. 29 - If we consider the heavens, the work of his fingers, the moon and the stars which he has ordained...
Стр. 209 - Report on the Progress and Condition of the Royal Gardens at Kew during the Year 1875, p.
Стр. 237 - Newton and Raphael — are potential in the fires of the sun. We long to learn something of our origin. If the Evolution hypothesis be correct, even this unsatisfied yearning must have come to us across the ages which separate the primeval mist from the consciousness of to-day.
Стр. 190 - In the schools provided by the Board the Bible shall be read, and there shall be given such- explanations and such instruction therefrom in the principles of morality and religion as are suited to the capacities of children.