The Microcosm: The Organ of Substantial Philosophy, Том 8Hall & Company, 1891 |
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... moving body ; and he also re- alizes that if the pendular motion of the tun- ing - fork is to produce sound - waves , etc. , it must move " very much faster " than the fast- est pendulum ever set wagging by the hand of man . His great ...
... moving body ; and he also re- alizes that if the pendular motion of the tun- ing - fork is to produce sound - waves , etc. , it must move " very much faster " than the fast- est pendulum ever set wagging by the hand of man . His great ...
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... moving cause . " To suppose force of any kind to be the motion of matter , and at the same time to be the cause of such motion , was to our mind an absurdity , though it glared at us from every page of our physical text - books ; and it ...
... moving cause . " To suppose force of any kind to be the motion of matter , and at the same time to be the cause of such motion , was to our mind an absurdity , though it glared at us from every page of our physical text - books ; and it ...
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... moving outward from the center of disturbance , and describing an ellipse ( so the theory teaches ) whose diameter should not be less than the greatest swing of the fork's prong . But what of the nature , extent and variety of heaven's ...
... moving outward from the center of disturbance , and describing an ellipse ( so the theory teaches ) whose diameter should not be less than the greatest swing of the fork's prong . But what of the nature , extent and variety of heaven's ...
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... moving forward one - twentieth of an inch in a given time than the one - millionth of an inch in the same time ; and so propor- tionately less heat is evolved by the excursion of the molecule at the last than at the first of its ...
... moving forward one - twentieth of an inch in a given time than the one - millionth of an inch in the same time ; and so propor- tionately less heat is evolved by the excursion of the molecule at the last than at the first of its ...
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... the vibrating or exploding body , are capable of mechanically moving , shaking or breaking other bodies against which they strike ; whilst , 1 cludes the Professor , " has passed through both No. 2 . 27 THE MICROCOSM .
... the vibrating or exploding body , are capable of mechanically moving , shaking or breaking other bodies against which they strike ; whilst , 1 cludes the Professor , " has passed through both No. 2 . 27 THE MICROCOSM .
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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 - 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.