Caloric: Its Mechanical, Chemical, and Vital Agencies in the Phenomena of Nature,W. Pickering, 1843 - Всего страниц: 1100 |
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... reason to believe that all the great truths of science which are of the highest importance for us to know , are no less remarkable for simplicity , than for the wide extent of their application ; and that when fully unfolded , they will ...
... reason to believe that all the great truths of science which are of the highest importance for us to know , are no less remarkable for simplicity , than for the wide extent of their application ; and that when fully unfolded , they will ...
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... reason , that " there can be no virtue without substance , " as maintained by Newton . It was an axiom among the ancients , that nothing can be said to exist , unless it can be recognized by the senses . " Nihil esse potest , nisi quod ...
... reason , that " there can be no virtue without substance , " as maintained by Newton . It was an axiom among the ancients , that nothing can be said to exist , unless it can be recognized by the senses . " Nihil esse potest , nisi quod ...
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... reason can be assigned . * But if it be a fact , that the elastic force of bodies is augmented by every addition ... reasons to the contrary , as ultimate phenomena , referable to the direct agency of an attractive and repulsive force ...
... reason can be assigned . * But if it be a fact , that the elastic force of bodies is augmented by every addition ... reasons to the contrary , as ultimate phenomena , referable to the direct agency of an attractive and repulsive force ...
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... reason why it should not be the cause of the cen- tripetal force which maintains them in their orbits ; consequently , that the projectile and gra- vitating forces of Sir Isaac Newton are owing to one and the same principle which ...
... reason why it should not be the cause of the cen- tripetal force which maintains them in their orbits ; consequently , that the projectile and gra- vitating forces of Sir Isaac Newton are owing to one and the same principle which ...
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... reason , olefiant gas is a quaternary compound - nitrous acid a quinquenary com- pound - alcohol sexanary , being composed of CH3O . - carbonate of ammonia septenary ; while nitrate of potass , æther , and many other bodies , are still ...
... reason , olefiant gas is a quaternary compound - nitrous acid a quinquenary com- pound - alcohol sexanary , being composed of CH3O . - carbonate of ammonia septenary ; while nitrate of potass , æther , and many other bodies , are still ...
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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.