Elements of General Knowledge, Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of Literature and Science: With Lists of the Most Approved Authors, Including the Best Editions of the Classics ; Designed Chiefly for the Junior Students in the Universities and the Higher Classes in Schools ; in Two Volumes. 2Messrs. Rivington, St. Paul's Church Yard; Hatchard, Piccadilly; and Egerton, Withehall; J. Parker and J. Cooke, Oxford; and Deighton, Cambridge, 1806 - 553 oldal |
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184. oldal
... substances as would be- come pernicious to the health of man , if left to a gradual decay . For what reafon nature is fo prodigal in the pro- duction of animals invifible , as well as vifible , to the unaffifted eye ; for what cause ...
... substances as would be- come pernicious to the health of man , if left to a gradual decay . For what reafon nature is fo prodigal in the pro- duction of animals invifible , as well as vifible , to the unaffifted eye ; for what cause ...
208. oldal
... substances which enter into the com- pofition of metals , are detected and exhibited in a feparate state , and the laws of their combination laid open to view . Thus we fhall be able to apply the knowledge of inorganic nature to the ...
... substances which enter into the com- pofition of metals , are detected and exhibited in a feparate state , and the laws of their combination laid open to view . Thus we fhall be able to apply the knowledge of inorganic nature to the ...
216. oldal
... substances , which are called the bafes of the feveral acids . If the fresh branches or leaves of plants are placed under a glafs veffel filled with water , inverted in that fluid , and then expofed to the fun , they emit bubbles of air ...
... substances , which are called the bafes of the feveral acids . If the fresh branches or leaves of plants are placed under a glafs veffel filled with water , inverted in that fluid , and then expofed to the fun , they emit bubbles of air ...
217. oldal
... that state it is called diamond . The figure of the diamond varies confiderably ; but most com- monly it is an hexagonal prifm terminated by a fix- fided 7 fided pyramid . It is one of the hardest substances CHEMISTRY . 217.
... that state it is called diamond . The figure of the diamond varies confiderably ; but most com- monly it is an hexagonal prifm terminated by a fix- fided 7 fided pyramid . It is one of the hardest substances CHEMISTRY . 217.
218. oldal
... substances in nature , and as it is not affected by a confiderable heat , it was for many ages confidered as incom- buftible . Sir Ifaac Newton obferving that com- buftible fubftances refracted light more powerfully than other bodies ...
... substances in nature , and as it is not affected by a confiderable heat , it was for many ages confidered as incom- buftible . Sir Ifaac Newton obferving that com- buftible fubftances refracted light more powerfully than other bodies ...
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