Caloric: Its Mechanical, Chemical, and Vital Agencies in the Phenomena of Nature,W. Pickering, 1843 - Всего страниц: 1100 |
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... bodies . " He adds in another sentence , " I conceive the atmosphere to be com- posed of the particles of all sorts of bodies of which the earth consists , separated and kept at a distance from one another by the same active principle ...
... bodies . " He adds in another sentence , " I conceive the atmosphere to be com- posed of the particles of all sorts of bodies of which the earth consists , separated and kept at a distance from one another by the same active principle ...
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... bodies , and measured with mathe- matical precision , as all good thermometers de- monstrate : 2. That it augments the volume of bodies , which are again reduced in size by its abstraction : - But if Newton had traced the word æther to ...
... bodies , and measured with mathe- matical precision , as all good thermometers de- monstrate : 2. That it augments the volume of bodies , which are again reduced in size by its abstraction : - But if Newton had traced the word æther to ...
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... bodies , must it not itself have volume , occupy space , and therefore be a material agent ? Would it not be mere jargon to speak of the radiation , reflexion , convection , and conduction of a mere quality , or immaterial property ...
... bodies , must it not itself have volume , occupy space , and therefore be a material agent ? Would it not be mere jargon to speak of the radiation , reflexion , convection , and conduction of a mere quality , or immaterial property ...
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... bodies into a state of violent agitation . But such is not the fact ; for if the atmosphere , the ocean , and the solid strata of the earth , were kept in a state of perpetual tremor , their tempe- rature would not be materially altered ...
... bodies into a state of violent agitation . But such is not the fact ; for if the atmosphere , the ocean , and the solid strata of the earth , were kept in a state of perpetual tremor , their tempe- rature would not be materially altered ...
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... bodies are full of caloric , -that it occupies 827 parts by volume of the atmosphere , and 1719 parts of steam , it must be obvious that it constitutes by far the greater proportion by bulk , of the solid globe we inhabit . And if when ...
... bodies are full of caloric , -that it occupies 827 parts by volume of the atmosphere , and 1719 parts of steam , it must be obvious that it constitutes by far the greater proportion by bulk , of the solid globe we inhabit . And if when ...
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according æther æthereal affinity Africa agency agent amount of caloric animal heat aqueous vapour arterial blood atmosphere atomic weight attraction augmented bodies brain caloric camphene capillary carbon and hydrogen carbonic acid cause cent ceteris paribus chemical action chemical affinity chlorine chyle circulation climate cohesion cold colour combination combustion composed condensation constitution contain Davy diminished diseases earth elastic force electricity equal experiments fact fever fibrin fluid gaseous gases greater Hippocrates hydrogen less light liquids lungs maintained metals middle latitudes minutes motion muscular nature nearly nerves nervous nitric acid nitrogen nutrition observed organs owing oxides oxygen particles perature phenomena philosophers phosphorus physiologists plants polar ponderable matter portion principle produced proportion rain ratio regarded repulsion respiration salts shewn solar solids specific gravity sulphur supposed tained temperature theory tion tricity tropical vegetable venous blood vital warm winds winter
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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.