Caloric: Its Mechanical, Chemical, and Vital Agencies in the Phenomena of Nature,W. Pickering, 1843 - Всего страниц: 1100 |
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... minute . At the expiration of thirty minutes , when the cylinder had made 960 revolutions about its axis , its temperature was found to have risen from 60 ° to 130 ° F. In another experiment , the cylinder was wrapped round with flannel ...
... minute . At the expiration of thirty minutes , when the cylinder had made 960 revolutions about its axis , its temperature was found to have risen from 60 ° to 130 ° F. In another experiment , the cylinder was wrapped round with flannel ...
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... minute in 1261 years , is ad- mitted by all astronomers . It therefore follows , that if it should go on decreasing in the same ratio , without any oscillations or retrogradations , it would wholly vanish in about 177,760 years , when ...
... minute in 1261 years , is ad- mitted by all astronomers . It therefore follows , that if it should go on decreasing in the same ratio , without any oscillations or retrogradations , it would wholly vanish in about 177,760 years , when ...
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... minute atoms , which are surrounded by atmospheres of caloric ; and that oxygen unites with nitrogen in proportions which are even mul- tiples of the lowest . But to Dr. John Dalton of Manchester , was reserved the distinguished ho ...
... minute atoms , which are surrounded by atmospheres of caloric ; and that oxygen unites with nitrogen in proportions which are even mul- tiples of the lowest . But to Dr. John Dalton of Manchester , was reserved the distinguished ho ...
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... minutes of a degree be- tween the temperature of 32 ° and 212 ° ; while in other cases it varies nearly 1o in different speci- mens of the same salt . For a full account of his discoveries , see Ann . de Chym . et de Phys . tom . xiv ...
... minutes of a degree be- tween the temperature of 32 ° and 212 ° ; while in other cases it varies nearly 1o in different speci- mens of the same salt . For a full account of his discoveries , see Ann . de Chym . et de Phys . tom . xiv ...
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... minute portions of ponderable matter in a state of incandescence , as will be shown hereafter by the decisive and beautiful experi- ments of Fusinieri . 4. That when the electric fluid is transmitted through the vacuum of an air pump ...
... minute portions of ponderable matter in a state of incandescence , as will be shown hereafter by the decisive and beautiful experi- ments of Fusinieri . 4. That when the electric fluid is transmitted through the vacuum of an air pump ...
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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.