The Microcosm: The Organ of Substantial Philosophy, Том 8Hall & Company, 1891 |
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... means of saving the theory , Thus all through these authorities it is namely , that the tuning - fork , being so small taught in dozens of places that all the air in a body , permits " a large part of the air in contact with the front ...
... means of saving the theory , Thus all through these authorities it is namely , that the tuning - fork , being so small taught in dozens of places that all the air in a body , permits " a large part of the air in contact with the front ...
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... means of sound - boards . Dr. wood over that from the iron is not caused by Taylor , like his predecessors , has , of course , the pitch or quality of the sound as Dr. Taylor fallen into the same almost inexcusable error . intimates ...
... means of sound - boards . Dr. wood over that from the iron is not caused by Taylor , like his predecessors , has , of course , the pitch or quality of the sound as Dr. Taylor fallen into the same almost inexcusable error . intimates ...
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... means of traveling every where in the electric fluid , that is now working such me shape of undulations of said ether . This huge , chanical wonders , as the mere vibration of the but to them indespensable , petitio principii is ...
... means of traveling every where in the electric fluid , that is now working such me shape of undulations of said ether . This huge , chanical wonders , as the mere vibration of the but to them indespensable , petitio principii is ...
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... means devised for that end - namely , vibration of the sonor- ous body itself . " " Such is , briefly , what I believe sound to be ; and I accept the definition as reasonable , per- fectly consistent with all the observed phe- nomena of ...
... means devised for that end - namely , vibration of the sonor- ous body itself . " " Such is , briefly , what I believe sound to be ; and I accept the definition as reasonable , per- fectly consistent with all the observed phe- nomena of ...
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... means with our auditory nerves , produces in our consciousness the sensation of hearing . Light is that force in nature having definite laws of production and propagation which , by entering our eyes and coming in contact with our optic ...
... means with our auditory nerves , produces in our consciousness the sensation of hearing . Light is that force in nature having definite laws of production and propagation which , by entering our eyes and coming in contact with our optic ...
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absolute according action admit air-particles air-pulses air-waves annular argument Audsley body canopy cause claim compression condensations and rarefactions Darwin discovery disease dyspepsia earth effect energy entity existence fact force fork four cubic miles GEORGE ASHDOWN AUDSLEY give Hæckel Hall's Health-Pamphlet heat heaven Helmholtz immaterial inch insect light locust logical lymph matter mechanical ment mental MICROCOSM mind molecules motion motion-theories moving natural selection organic Park Row particle physical Problem of Human produce Prof Professor prong prove pulse rarefactions reader reason reply result ROBERT ROGERS scientific Sedley Taylor serpent sonorous sound-board sound-pulses sound-waves stridulating string Substantial Philosophy Substantial Theory sympathetic vibration teaching text-book Theistic evolution theory of acoustics theory of sound thing tion treatment tricity truth tuning-fork tympanic membrane Tyndall Typhon velocity vibrating vital wave wave-theory of sound WILFORD HALL Wood writes York Post
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Стр. 8 - And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
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.