Caloric: Its Mechanical, Chemical, and Vital Agencies in the Phenomena of Nature,W. Pickering, 1843 - Всего страниц: 1100 |
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... light has been recognised as a powerful agent in the work of the universe . As the great painter of nature , it gives to the dome of heaven its azure hue , to the rainbow , its gorgeous red , brilliant yellow , refreshing green , and ...
... light has been recognised as a powerful agent in the work of the universe . As the great painter of nature , it gives to the dome of heaven its azure hue , to the rainbow , its gorgeous red , brilliant yellow , refreshing green , and ...
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... light is composed of seven primitive rays , as supposed by New- ton , or of only three fundamental colours , as maintained , with many cogent reasons de- duced from experiment , by Sir David Brew- ster . On the same subject , the ...
... light is composed of seven primitive rays , as supposed by New- ton , or of only three fundamental colours , as maintained , with many cogent reasons de- duced from experiment , by Sir David Brew- ster . On the same subject , the ...
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... light , and in all the phenomena of nature . Since the time of Sir Isaac Newton , it has been generally supposed that all the molecular changes of matter may be referred to attractive and repulsive forces . Yet the cause of attrac- tion ...
... light , and in all the phenomena of nature . Since the time of Sir Isaac Newton , it has been generally supposed that all the molecular changes of matter may be referred to attractive and repulsive forces . Yet the cause of attrac- tion ...
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... light , which he regarded as a material substance , perpetually flowing from the sun and fixed stars through space . But that caloric does not consist in mere motion or vibration among the particles of ponderable matter , would appear ...
... light , which he regarded as a material substance , perpetually flowing from the sun and fixed stars through space . But that caloric does not consist in mere motion or vibration among the particles of ponderable matter , would appear ...
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... light pass through them with slight in- terruption , giving rise to the phenomena of transmission and what is called transparency . But when the regular arrange- bodies , is directly in proportion to the amount of 12 ALL BODIES FULL OF ...
... light pass through them with slight in- terruption , giving rise to the phenomena of transmission and what is called transparency . But when the regular arrange- bodies , is directly in proportion to the amount of 12 ALL BODIES FULL OF ...
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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.