Nature, Том 4Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1871 |
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... direction of the corona is illuminated by direct sunlight , a proposition which we apprehend no one ever maintained . But we know that every bright celestial object is surrounded by a certain amount of stray light , due to atmospheric ...
... direction of the corona is illuminated by direct sunlight , a proposition which we apprehend no one ever maintained . But we know that every bright celestial object is surrounded by a certain amount of stray light , due to atmospheric ...
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... direction have been taken by the great examining boards . Fifteen years ago the College of Surgeons required little more than a good knowledge of anatomy and the principles of surgery in those they admitted as members , and even now the ...
... direction have been taken by the great examining boards . Fifteen years ago the College of Surgeons required little more than a good knowledge of anatomy and the principles of surgery in those they admitted as members , and even now the ...
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... direction of the meridian is towards the north in the Atlantic ; towards the south , but feebly , in Scandinavia ; and more strongly towards the south in Russia ; in this latter country they appear to lose themselves . Charts Let us now ...
... direction of the meridian is towards the north in the Atlantic ; towards the south , but feebly , in Scandinavia ; and more strongly towards the south in Russia ; in this latter country they appear to lose themselves . Charts Let us now ...
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... direction of motion along any axis , and the positive direction of rotation round it . In Sir W. Hamilton's Lectures on Quaternions the coordinate axes are drawn , a to South , y to West , and upwards . The same system is adopted in ...
... direction of motion along any axis , and the positive direction of rotation round it . In Sir W. Hamilton's Lectures on Quaternions the coordinate axes are drawn , a to South , y to West , and upwards . The same system is adopted in ...
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... direction of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey , for a very complete and thorough investigation of the deep - sea bottom , and especially of the channel of the Gulf Stream off the eastern coast of America , with an examination also ...
... direction of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey , for a very complete and thorough investigation of the deep - sea bottom , and especially of the channel of the Gulf Stream off the eastern coast of America , with an examination also ...
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Стр. 268 - Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Стр. 268 - It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth...
Стр. 260 - ... shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took ; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving ; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die.
Стр. 264 - I am purposing them, to be considered of and examined, an account of a philosophical discovery which induced me to the making of the said telescope ; and I doubt not but will prove much more grateful than the communication of that instrument ; being in my judgment the oddest, if not the most considerable detection which hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature.
Стр. 263 - Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.
Стр. 260 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What needst thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Стр. 293 - But expectation is permissible where belief is not; and if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man may recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter.
Стр. 30 - If we consider the heavens, the work of his fingers, the moon and the stars which he has ordained...
Стр. 198 - I2mo. With Illustrations. Cloth, $2.00. " The present volume is for the most part a record of bodily action, written partly to preserve to myself the memory of strong and joyous hours, and partly for the pleasure of those who find exhilaration in descriptions associated with mountain-life.
Стр. 268 - ... have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own, we must regard it as probable in the highest degree that there are countless seed-bearing meteoric stones moving about through space. If at the present instant no life existed upon this Earth, one such stone falling upon it might, by what we blindly call natural causes, lead to its becoming covered with vegetation.