The Microcosm: The Organ of Substantial Philosophy, Том 8Hall & Company, 1891 |
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... inch wide and an inch long - not the twentieth the area of a tuning - fork's prong - produces a sound that can be heard half a mile in an open field . Why does not the air slip off laterally from this little brass reed and refuse to be ...
... inch wide and an inch long - not the twentieth the area of a tuning - fork's prong - produces a sound that can be heard half a mile in an open field . Why does not the air slip off laterally from this little brass reed and refuse to be ...
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... inch , and he will at condensing or squeezing force of more than the once demonstrate that the locust in thus in- mechanical energy exerted by a million loco - creasing the density of every cubic inch of that motive - engines under full ...
... inch , and he will at condensing or squeezing force of more than the once demonstrate that the locust in thus in- mechanical energy exerted by a million loco - creasing the density of every cubic inch of that motive - engines under full ...
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... inches , press the stem of the vibrating fork against it , and instantly its sonorous property will so augment the volume of sound as to increase it at least a hundred- fold . Now , take a piece of iron of the same dimensions , having ...
... inches , press the stem of the vibrating fork against it , and instantly its sonorous property will so augment the volume of sound as to increase it at least a hundred- fold . Now , take a piece of iron of the same dimensions , having ...
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... inch in Koch . The most remarkable feature of this diameter , would without assistance rout this now widely - prevailing sensation is that with- army of occupation fortified and provisioned out waiting for any well authenticated cases ...
... inch in Koch . The most remarkable feature of this diameter , would without assistance rout this now widely - prevailing sensation is that with- army of occupation fortified and provisioned out waiting for any well authenticated cases ...
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... inch , can generate sound by condensing and rarefying this elastic air , which defies the large swings of a pendulum ? I , for one , re- fuse to believe any such nonsense . I have in the foregoing remarks endeavored to show you the ...
... inch , can generate sound by condensing and rarefying this elastic air , which defies the large swings of a pendulum ? I , for one , re- fuse to believe any such nonsense . I have in the foregoing remarks endeavored to show you the ...
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Стр. 8 - There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner, being an hundred years old, shall be accursed.
Стр. 22 - All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Стр. 160 - I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind...
Стр. 164 - Several writers have misapprehended or objected to the term Natural Selection. Some have even imagined that natural selection induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation of such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life.
Стр. 7 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Стр. 164 - Why should not Nature take a sudden leap from structure to structure ? On the theory of natural selection, we can clearly understand why she should not; for natural selection acts only by taking advantage of slight successive variations ; she can never take a great and sudden leap, but must advance by short and sure, though slow steps.
Стр. 121 - In the case of water, when the crests of one system of waves coincide with the crests of another system: higher waves will be the result of the coalescence of the two systems. But when the crests of one system coincide with the sinuses, or furrows, of the other system, the two systems, in whole or in part, destroy each other. This mutual destruction of two systems of waves is called interference. The same remarks apply to sonorous waves.
Стр. 147 - Imagine one of the prongs of the vibrating fork swiftly advancing ; it compresses the air immediately in front of it, and when it retreats it leaves a partial vacuum behind, the process being repeated by every subsequent advance and retreat.
Стр. 160 - I declare," says Dr. James Johnson, "my conscientious opinion, founded on long observation and reflection, that if there was not a single physician, surgeon, apothecary, manmidwife, chemist, druggist, or drug, on the face of the earth, there would be less sickness, and less mortality than now obtains.