Caloric: Its Mechanical, Chemical, and Vital Agencies in the Phenomena of Nature,W. Pickering, 1843 - Всего страниц: 1100 |
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... Davy , Young , and others . One of the most important modern discove- ries was that of latent or combined heat , by Dr. Black . When he proved by accurate ex- periments , that definite measures of caloric are required to convert solids ...
... Davy , Young , and others . One of the most important modern discove- ries was that of latent or combined heat , by Dr. Black . When he proved by accurate ex- periments , that definite measures of caloric are required to convert solids ...
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... Davy , Arago , and Schweig- ger , who found that electricity is capable of producing all the phenomena of magnetic action on a small scale , he succeeded in obtaining an electric spark from a permanent magnet ; he arrived at the ...
... Davy , Arago , and Schweig- ger , who found that electricity is capable of producing all the phenomena of magnetic action on a small scale , he succeeded in obtaining an electric spark from a permanent magnet ; he arrived at the ...
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... Davy observes , in his Chemical Philosophy , that “ the cause of heat is motion , and the laws of its communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion . " But in the Treatise on Life and Death , as also in ...
... Davy observes , in his Chemical Philosophy , that “ the cause of heat is motion , and the laws of its communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion . " But in the Treatise on Life and Death , as also in ...
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... Davy , I answer that there is an enormous amount of caloric locked up in a state of chemical combination with ice , as shown by the rapidity with which it melts frozen mer- cury , nitrate of potass , chloride of lime , chloride of ...
... Davy , I answer that there is an enormous amount of caloric locked up in a state of chemical combination with ice , as shown by the rapidity with which it melts frozen mer- cury , nitrate of potass , chloride of lime , chloride of ...
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... water is always composed of 2 volumes of hydrogen to 1 of oxygen , it was in- ferred by Davy , Berzelius , Prout , and others , that nia is magnified by an oxy - hydrogen micros- cope RELATION OF ATOMS TO VOLUMES . 69.
... water is always composed of 2 volumes of hydrogen to 1 of oxygen , it was in- ferred by Davy , Berzelius , Prout , and others , that nia is magnified by an oxy - hydrogen micros- cope RELATION OF ATOMS TO VOLUMES . 69.
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Стр. 480 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres ! Once bless our human ears (If ye have power to touch our senses so), And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Стр. ii - Thus calmly spake the venerable Sage, " An active Principle : — howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures ; in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds, In flower and tree, in every pebbly stone That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks, The moving waters, and the invisible air.
Стр. 259 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Стр. 468 - Let us adore the supremacy of that divine Sun, the Godhead, who illuminates all, who recreates all, from whom all proceed, to whom all must return, whom we invoke to direct our understandings aright in our progress towards his holy seat.
Стр. 28 - Some say, he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth, twice ten degrees and more, From the sun's axle ; they with labour push'd Oblique the centric globe.
Стр. 20 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
Стр. 508 - To every form of being is assigned An active principle, howe'er removed From sense and observation ; it subsists In all things, in all natures, in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds, In flower and tree, and every pebbly stone That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks, The moving waters, and the invisible air.
Стр. 474 - The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep.
Стр. 16 - I wish we could derive the rest of the phenomena of Nature by the same kind of reasoning from mechanical principles, for I am induced by many reasons to suspect that they...
Стр. 161 - And to shew that I do not take Gravity for an essential Property of Bodies, I have added one Question concerning its Cause, chusing to propose it by way of a Question, because I am not yet satisfied about it for want of Experiments.