 | Joseph Priestley - 1790 - 600 oldal
...this experiment failed, I have been fb happy, as by accident to have hit upon a method of reftoring air, which has been injured by the burning of candles, and to have difcovered at leaft one of the reftoratives which nature employs for this purpofe. It is vegetation.... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - 1841 - 362 oldal
...satisfaction of others I wanted a mouse to make the proof quite complete." On the 8th of March, \~J7b, he tried this experiment, and found that the animal...then goes on to relate, that on the 17th of August, \77\, he put a sprig of mint into a quantity of air in which a candle had burned out, and found that... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1890 - 600 oldal
...this experiment failed, I have been fb happy, as by accident to have hit upon a method of reftoring air, which has been injured by the burning of candles, and to have difcovered at leaft one of the reftoratives which nature employs for this purpofe. It is vegetation.... | |
 | 1893 - 1266 oldal
...the injury which the atmosphere receives by this means. " I flatter myself that I have accidentally hit upon a method of restoring air which has been injured by the burning of candles, and that I have discovered at least one of the restoratives which Nature employs for this purpose. It is... | |
 | Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons - 1894 - 424 oldal
...and condensation. p. 166. " Though this experiment failed, I flatter myself that I have accidentally hit upon a method of restoring air which has been injured by the burning of candles, and that I have discovered at least one of the restoratives which nature employs for this purpose. It is... | |
 | Sir Michael Foster - 1901 - 338 oldal
...by being breathed. After several failures he at last succeeded by means of vegetation. He says : " I have been so happy as by accident to have hit upon...candles, and to have discovered at least one of the restora" tives which nature employs for this purpose. It is vegetation. * ****** " necessary to vegetable... | |
 | William Stirling - 1902 - 210 oldal
...remedying the injury which the atmosphere receives by this means. " Though this experiment failed, I have been so happy, as by accident to have hit upon...nature employs for this purpose. It is vegetation. This restoration of vitiated air, I conjecture, is effected by plants imbibing the phlogistic matter... | |
 | Julius Berend Cohen - 1913 - 446 oldal
...had been vitiated by breathing or combustion) in restoring it to its original purity. He writes, ' I have been so happy as by accident to have hit upon...Nature employs for this purpose. It is vegetation.' Later, when 'dephlogisticated air' or oxygen was discovered. Priestley was able to identify it with... | |
 | Sir Arthur Schuster, Sir Arthur Everett Shipley - 1917 - 432 oldal
...chemist Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), who, while working on the investigation of the air, states : "I have been so happy as by accident to have hit upon...which has been injured by the burning of candles, and I have discovered at least one restorative which nature employs for this purpose. It is vegetation."... | |
 | Julius Berend Cohen - 1919 - 464 oldal
...had been vitiated by breathing or combustion) in restoring it to its original purity. He writes1 ' I have been so happy as by accident to have hit upon...Nature employs for this purpose. It is vegetation.' Later, when 'dephlogisticated air ' or oxygen was discovered, Priestley was able to identify it with... | |
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I have been so happy as by accident to hit upon a method of restoring air which has been injured by the burning of candles and to have discovered at least one of the restoratives which Nature employs for this purpose. It is vegetation. 
