Caloric: Its Mechanical, Chemical, and Vital Agencies in the Phenomena of Nature,W. Pickering, 1843 - Всего страниц: 1100 |
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... higher latitudes . For example , it has been found that the Orinoco , which drains only 400,000 square miles of territory , dis- charges more water into the sea than the Missis- sippi , which drains 1,350,000 square miles . * It will ...
... higher latitudes . For example , it has been found that the Orinoco , which drains only 400,000 square miles of territory , dis- charges more water into the sea than the Missis- sippi , which drains 1,350,000 square miles . * It will ...
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... the newest tertiary deposits in Siberia , abound with bones of the Mastodon or mammoth , which seems to have been as common in the higher latitudes of Asia and America , as elephants are now PLANETARY INCLINATIONS . 27.
... the newest tertiary deposits in Siberia , abound with bones of the Mastodon or mammoth , which seems to have been as common in the higher latitudes of Asia and America , as elephants are now PLANETARY INCLINATIONS . 27.
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... higher lati- tudes abounded with tropical plants and animals , — a great physical fact which cannot be satisfac- torily accounted for in accordance with the theory of Laplace . The truth is , that his ma- thematical reasonings were ...
... higher lati- tudes abounded with tropical plants and animals , — a great physical fact which cannot be satisfac- torily accounted for in accordance with the theory of Laplace . The truth is , that his ma- thematical reasonings were ...
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... point of mercury , its volume con- tracts in a greater ratio than at higher temperatures , it is pro- bable that the same thing may be true of other bodies . 172 ater osed trac Tume been COD- pro t at 78 LATENT CALORIC OF WATER .
... point of mercury , its volume con- tracts in a greater ratio than at higher temperatures , it is pro- bable that the same thing may be true of other bodies . 172 ater osed trac Tume been COD- pro t at 78 LATENT CALORIC OF WATER .
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... higher in the diamond than in any other body which he tried , he arrived at the conclusion that it was a sulphureous or unctuous body co- agulated , and would be found inflammable . ( Optics , Book ii . 240-—50 . ) That there is at ...
... higher in the diamond than in any other body which he tried , he arrived at the conclusion that it was a sulphureous or unctuous body co- agulated , and would be found inflammable . ( Optics , Book ii . 240-—50 . ) That there is at ...
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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.