Caloric: Its Mechanical, Chemical, and Vital Agencies in the Phenomena of Nature,W. Pickering, 1843 - Всего страниц: 1100 |
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... earth , were kept in a state of perpetual tremor , their tempe- rature would not be materially altered . The ad- vocates of the immaterial theory have never ex- plained what causes bodies to vibrate ; nor what touch , and then think ...
... earth , were kept in a state of perpetual tremor , their tempe- rature would not be materially altered . The ad- vocates of the immaterial theory have never ex- plained what causes bodies to vibrate ; nor what touch , and then think ...
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... earth in the globular form : -in short , that all the phenomena of nature may be referred to the law by which caloric repels its own particles , and attracts those of ponderable matter . That the quantity of evaporation and rain ...
... earth in the globular form : -in short , that all the phenomena of nature may be referred to the law by which caloric repels its own particles , and attracts those of ponderable matter . That the quantity of evaporation and rain ...
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... earth , diminishes from the torrid zone ; where during the rainy season , it occurs almost every day , for nearly half the * It has been estimated by geographers , that about thirty - three cubic miles of water are discharged daily into ...
... earth , diminishes from the torrid zone ; where during the rainy season , it occurs almost every day , for nearly half the * It has been estimated by geographers , that about thirty - three cubic miles of water are discharged daily into ...
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... earth were of uniform surface and ele- vation , there would be a gradual diminution of temperature from the equator to the poles , and the winds would be as regular as the movements of the heavenly bodies . But owing to the pre- sent ...
... earth were of uniform surface and ele- vation , there would be a gradual diminution of temperature from the equator to the poles , and the winds would be as regular as the movements of the heavenly bodies . But owing to the pre- sent ...
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... earth , -where the forces of the volcano , the earthquake , and of universal chemistry , are surpassed only by those which wheel the planets through their orbits . For example , we are informed by Captain Burnes , that during the Cutch ...
... earth , -where the forces of the volcano , the earthquake , and of universal chemistry , are surpassed only by those which wheel the planets through their orbits . For example , we are informed by Captain Burnes , that during the Cutch ...
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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.