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
... simple mechanical appliances which , on account of their general utility , must have evidently earliest engaged the attention of mankind . To render our view , however , intelligible to the reader , we must first examine the nature of ...
... simple mechanical appliances which , on account of their general utility , must have evidently earliest engaged the attention of mankind . To render our view , however , intelligible to the reader , we must first examine the nature of ...
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... simple , performing all the great motions of the heavenly bodies by the attraction of gravity , which pervades those bodies , and almost all the small ones of their parts , by some other at- tractive power diffused through the particles ...
... simple , performing all the great motions of the heavenly bodies by the attraction of gravity , which pervades those bodies , and almost all the small ones of their parts , by some other at- tractive power diffused through the particles ...
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... simple method of checking measures of capacity , it is desirable that all minute fractions of weight should be avoided . That the most accurate mode of ascertaining the standard pound is to immerse in water a solid cylinder of brass ...
... simple method of checking measures of capacity , it is desirable that all minute fractions of weight should be avoided . That the most accurate mode of ascertaining the standard pound is to immerse in water a solid cylinder of brass ...
Стр. xxxiii
... simple character , and as they rarely produced more than five or six different tones . The invention of the organ by Ctesibius forms a remarkable epoch in this branch of acoustical science . The larger wind instruments were furnished ...
... simple character , and as they rarely produced more than five or six different tones . The invention of the organ by Ctesibius forms a remarkable epoch in this branch of acoustical science . The larger wind instruments were furnished ...
Стр. xxxvii
... simple hydrostatic apparatus . A pressure equal to fifty or sixty tons may readily be put in operation by a single labourer . We are indebted to Mr. Bramah for the invention of this press , and , in the case before us , it is applied to ...
... simple hydrostatic apparatus . A pressure equal to fifty or sixty tons may readily be put in operation by a single labourer . We are indebted to Mr. Bramah for the invention of this press , and , in the case before us , it is applied to ...
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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...