The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, Geography, Literature, Natural History, and Biography ...Charles Frederick Partington Wm. S. Orr and Company, 1838 |
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Стр. vi
... figure of a drop of water , in the determination of which he had , from overlooking the double curvature , committed a small error . Nearly half a century more elapsed before any further attempt deserving notice was made to improve the ...
... figure of a drop of water , in the determination of which he had , from overlooking the double curvature , committed a small error . Nearly half a century more elapsed before any further attempt deserving notice was made to improve the ...
Стр. ix
... figure . Among the ancients , Dædalus was famed for constructing machines that imitated the motions of the human body . Certain statues of his , it is said , had the power of moving about , and would run away unless forcibly detained ...
... figure . Among the ancients , Dædalus was famed for constructing machines that imitated the motions of the human body . Certain statues of his , it is said , had the power of moving about , and would run away unless forcibly detained ...
Стр. xxxiii
... figure . But when we come to compare it with the instru- ment placed by its side we shall readily appreciate the value of modern improvement . In the harp - lute , or lyre , which forms the accompanying figure , there are only eight ...
... figure . But when we come to compare it with the instru- ment placed by its side we shall readily appreciate the value of modern improvement . In the harp - lute , or lyre , which forms the accompanying figure , there are only eight ...
Стр. xxxix
... figure into equilibrium with the fluid in which it is intended to float , and , fill- ing the bottle with water to the orifice , cover it with parchment or leather , which must be closely tied round the neck . To put the figures in ...
... figure into equilibrium with the fluid in which it is intended to float , and , fill- ing the bottle with water to the orifice , cover it with parchment or leather , which must be closely tied round the neck . To put the figures in ...
Стр. xlv
... figure ; and the execution proved so difficult that the instrument , during his life , was never brought to any perfection . The specula were afterwards constructed of the ordinary spherical form ; and the Gregorian telescope , till the ...
... figure ; and the execution proved so difficult that the instrument , during his life , was never brought to any perfection . The specula were afterwards constructed of the ordinary spherical form ; and the Gregorian telescope , till the ...
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Стр. 122 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed; For each seemed either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on...
Стр. 123 - The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her. inspiring mantle over me.
Стр. 164 - He formed them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces...
Стр. xliv - I tread upon. The other redeems it from all its insignificance ; for it tells me that in the leaves of every forest, and in the flowers of every garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament.
Стр. xliv - ... and that could we draw aside the mysterious curtain which shrouds it from our senses, we might there see a theatre of as many wonders as astronomy has unfolded, a universe within the compass of a point so small, as to elude all the powers of the microscope, but where the wonder-working God finds room for the exercise of all his attributes, where he can raise another mechanism of worlds, and fill and animate them all with the evidences of his glory.
Стр. 88 - Naples, at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, the history of which, however, is obscure.
Стр. 224 - ... the sides smooth previous to putting in the pipe. This chisel is attached to rods and to the handle, as before described, and in its descent the workmen continually walk round, by which the hole is made smooth and cylindrical.
Стр. 225 - Brails is likewise a name given to all the ropes employed to haul up the bottoms, lower corners and skirts of the great sails in general. The operation of drawing them together is called brailmg them up, or hauling them up to the brails.
Стр. 151 - I have seen double and treble nebulae variously arranged; large ones with small, seeming attendants ; narrow, but much extended lucid nebulae or bright dashes; some of the shape of a fan, resembling an electric brush issuing from a lucid point; others of the cometic shape, with a seeming nucleus in the centre, or like cloudy stars surrounded with a nebulous atmosphere. A different sort, again...