Readings in Natural Philosophy: Or, A Popular Display of the Wonders of Nature ...Whittaker, Treacher & Company, 1830 - 700 oldal |
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... surface being compounded of those two motions , the annual and diurnal ; while a point in the earth's surface moves about its centre , and at the same time its centre be carried forwards , the true motion of that point forwards is made ...
... surface being compounded of those two motions , the annual and diurnal ; while a point in the earth's surface moves about its centre , and at the same time its centre be carried forwards , the true motion of that point forwards is made ...
20. oldal
... surface of brimstone . It was edged in on each side with a great bank or hill of ashes , and behind and at the upper end rose up that huge mountain of the same matter . Between those two banks the fire seems to have had its passage . At ...
... surface of brimstone . It was edged in on each side with a great bank or hill of ashes , and behind and at the upper end rose up that huge mountain of the same matter . Between those two banks the fire seems to have had its passage . At ...
21. oldal
... surface of sciarri , which being cleft a - top for some space , we had an easy and deliberate view of the metal flowing along , whose superficies might be a yard broad , though possibly it carried a greater breadth underneath , the ...
... surface of sciarri , which being cleft a - top for some space , we had an easy and deliberate view of the metal flowing along , whose superficies might be a yard broad , though possibly it carried a greater breadth underneath , the ...
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... surface is darkish ; because of the rains and snows fallen upon it . Sometimes there appear also some reflections of colours , as in the rainbow . The angles are not pointed alike , all the flat sides being obliquely inclined to one ...
... surface is darkish ; because of the rains and snows fallen upon it . Sometimes there appear also some reflections of colours , as in the rainbow . The angles are not pointed alike , all the flat sides being obliquely inclined to one ...
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... surface alters its colour , and becomes dark , red , or blackish . The red globules of the blood I reckon to be 25,000 times smaller than a grain of sand . I have observed the tooth of a cow , and found it made up of transparent ...
... surface alters its colour , and becomes dark , red , or blackish . The red globules of the blood I reckon to be 25,000 times smaller than a grain of sand . I have observed the tooth of a cow , and found it made up of transparent ...
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Readings in Natural Philosophy: Or, a Popular Display of the Wonders of Nature Richard Phillips Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2020 |
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Népszerű szakaszok
155. oldal - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
255. oldal - One particular only (though it may appear trifling) I will relate. Having often forgot which was the cat, and which the dog, he was ashamed to ask ; but catching the cat (which he knew by feeling) he was observed to look at her steadfastly, and then setting her down, said, so puss ! I shall know you another time.
255. oldal - ... he could form no judgment of their shape, or guess what it was in any object that was pleasing to him. He knew not the shape of any thing, nor any one thing from another, however different in shape or magnitude ; but upon being told what things were, whose form he before knew from feeling, he would carefully observe, that he might know them again...
491. oldal - ... its load with a jerk, and quite disengaged it from the nest. It remained in this situation a short time, feeling about with the extremities of its wings, as if to be convinced whether the business was properly executed, and then dropped into the nest again.
33. oldal - Prisme at the window, so that the light might pass through a small hole, made in it for the purpose, and fall on the other board, which I placed at about 12...
555. oldal - By meditating on the results of all these experiments, we are naturally brought to that great question which has so often been the subject of speculation among philosophers, namely, What is heat — is there any such thing as an igneous fluid ? Is there anything that...
491. oldal - It remained in this situation a short time, feeling about with the extremities of its wings, as if to be convinced whether the business was properly executed, and then dropped into the nest again. With these (the extremities of its wings) I have often seen it examine, as it were, an egg and nestling before it began its operations; and the nice sensibility which these parts appeared to possess seemed sufficiently to compensate the want of sight, which as yet it was destitute of. I afterwards put in...
357. oldal - AS frequent mention is made in public papers from Europe of the success of the Philadelphia experiment for drawing the electric fire from clouds by means of pointed rods of iron erected on high buildings...
256. oldal - Epsom Downs, and observing a large prospect, he was exceedingly delighted with it, and called it a new kind of seeing.
555. oldal - It is hardly necessary to add, that anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish 'without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of...