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. iii
... light is ascertained , and that velocity , in the aberration of the fixed stars , furnishes the only direct proof of the real motion of the earth . The effects of the invisible rays of light are immediately connected with chemical ...
... light is ascertained , and that velocity , in the aberration of the fixed stars , furnishes the only direct proof of the real motion of the earth . The effects of the invisible rays of light are immediately connected with chemical ...
Стр. iv
... light , but only relatively so , and consequently that all matter was sub- ject to gravitation . Lord Bacon and Dr. Gilbert come next in order , though they added but little to our knowledge on the subject ; and we must look to Newton ...
... light , but only relatively so , and consequently that all matter was sub- ject to gravitation . Lord Bacon and Dr. Gilbert come next in order , though they added but little to our knowledge on the subject ; and we must look to Newton ...
Стр. vi
... light on the subject of capillary attraction . The attraction which results from a disturbance in the electrical equilibrium may next be adverted to . There were some very ridiculous doctrines taught by the ancient schoolmen in ...
... light on the subject of capillary attraction . The attraction which results from a disturbance in the electrical equilibrium may next be adverted to . There were some very ridiculous doctrines taught by the ancient schoolmen in ...
Стр. xliii
... light is always lost by refraction , which makes objects seen through lenses appear less luminous . He gave a table of the results of his experiments on the re- fractive powers of air , water , and glass , corresponding to the different ...
... light is always lost by refraction , which makes objects seen through lenses appear less luminous . He gave a table of the results of his experiments on the re- fractive powers of air , water , and glass , corresponding to the different ...
Стр. xlv
... light . The attention of Newton was about the same time drawn to the same subject , but with a perfect knowledge of the defect which he wanted to remove . Gregory thought it necessary that the specula should be of a parabolic figure ...
... light . The attention of Newton was about the same time drawn to the same subject , but with a perfect knowledge of the defect which he wanted to remove . Gregory thought it necessary that the specula should be of a parabolic figure ...
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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...