The Microcosm: The Organ of Substantial Philosophy, Том 8Hall & Company, 1891 |
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... readers . They can not be answered by Dr. Taylor nor by any other advocate of the wave - theory : THE NEW SOUND - THEORY . DR . SEDLEY TAYLOR'S REPLY TO DR . PEARCE RE- VIEWED BY DR . HALL . laws of the wave - theory , being ...
... readers . They can not be answered by Dr. Taylor nor by any other advocate of the wave - theory : THE NEW SOUND - THEORY . DR . SEDLEY TAYLOR'S REPLY TO DR . PEARCE RE- VIEWED BY DR . HALL . laws of the wave - theory , being ...
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... reader to the fact that the common little pitch - pipe with a tongue only the eighth of an 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 ...
... reader to the fact that the common little pitch - pipe with a tongue only the eighth of an 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 ...
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... Reader , minute at a time , of more than five thousand this astounding proposition I will now pro- million tons ! ceed to demonstrate . The real question at once presents itself , how much mechanical pressure must be ex- erted upon a ...
... Reader , minute at a time , of more than five thousand this astounding proposition I will now pro- million tons ! ceed to demonstrate . The real question at once presents itself , how much mechanical pressure must be ex- erted upon a ...
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... readers is the answer that any young substantialist in try the following simple and conclusive ex - America would give to this problem without periment : take a very thin dry pine board about six by eight inches , press the stem of the ...
... readers is the answer that any young substantialist in try the following simple and conclusive ex - America would give to this problem without periment : take a very thin dry pine board about six by eight inches , press the stem of the ...
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... reader again that it not my business to - day to prove a negative , but to present this second petitio of this giant scientific beggar - the wave - theory of sound- and to suggest how easily all these difficulties are overcome by the ...
... reader again that it not my business to - day to prove a negative , but to present this second petitio of this giant scientific beggar - the wave - theory of sound- and to suggest how easily all these difficulties are overcome by the ...
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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.