Notices of the Proceedings, 10. kötet |
Más kiadások - Összes megtekintése
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
Accademia dei Lincei action animal appears atmosphere body bridge carbon centimetre Cetacea chalk Channel tunnel Chemical coal dust colours comets diagram direction discharge distance effect engine excitation experiments explosion fact feet fire-damp fissure flame fore foot FREDERICK BRAMWELL gallery galvanometer GEORGE BUSK Greek guncotton heat hind foot ignition incandescent inches inflammable Institute-Journal island lamps larvæ leaf Lectures left fore left hind length less liquid matter means millimetre mixture mode molecules motion nature observed obtained ordinary oyster palæstra particles passing plant present produced Professor proper motion radiation railway rays right fore right hind Royal Institution Rumford side Society-Journal Socotra solar intensity spectrum Stylidium surface sword temperature thermopile thickness tion train tube tunnel uranium glass vapour Vice-President wave-length WEEKLY EVENING MEETING WILLIAM BOWMAN Williamsonia wire
Népszerű szakaszok
459. oldal - And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
459. oldal - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
458. 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 anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments except it be MOTION.
236. oldal - Moncado, with the galleys of which he was captain ; and from Calais driven with squibs from their anchors were chased out of the sight of England, round about Scotland and Ireland. Where, for the sympathy of their religion, hoping to find succour and assistance, a great part of them were crushed against the rocks...
432. oldal - Institution for diffusing the Knowledge and facilitating the general Introduction of Useful Mechanical Inventions and Improvements, and for teaching, by courses of Philosophical Lectures and Experiments, the Application of Science to the Common Purposes of Life.
8. oldal - Crookes in the course of his brilliant experiments on high vacua may throw some light upon this question. He concluded from his experiments that in such vacua as exist in planetary space the loss of heat, which in such cases would take place only by radiation, would be exceedingly small. In this way the heat received from the sun by the comet would accumulate, and we should get a much higher temperature than would otherwise be possible. In this connection may be mentioned the remarkable persistence...
428. oldal - ... to the author of any important discovery or useful improvement in light or in heat, which shall have been made and published by printing, or in any way made known to the public, in any part of the continent of America, or any of the American islands ; preference being always given to such discoveries as shall, in the opinion of the Academy, tend most to promote the good of mankind...
442. oldal - He was the man who first took the question of the nature of heat out of the domain of metaphysics, where it had been speculated upon since the time of Aristotle, and placed it upon the true basis of physical experiment.
445. oldal - I have the misfortune to be married to one of the most imperious, tyrannical, unfeeling women that ever existed, and whose perseverance in pursuing an object is equal to her profound cunning and wickedness in framing it.
475. oldal - ... so well fitted to regulate the conduct of the human race in the discharge of their various duties to GOD, to themselves and to society...