The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art, Volume 13Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1862 |
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Pagina iii
... American Association for the Advance- ment of Science was appointed to be held at Nashville , Tennessee , April , 1861 ; but , owing to the breaking out of the civil war , the meet- ing was necessarily postponed to some future and more ...
... American Association for the Advance- ment of Science was appointed to be held at Nashville , Tennessee , April , 1861 ; but , owing to the breaking out of the civil war , the meet- ing was necessarily postponed to some future and more ...
Pagina x
... American readers an idea of the scope and objects of the Congress : - " 6 Suggestions on the Failure of Education in the Junior Classes of Elementary Schools ; by the Rev. W. A. Willock , D.D. ” " On the Application of the Principles of ...
... American readers an idea of the scope and objects of the Congress : - " 6 Suggestions on the Failure of Education in the Junior Classes of Elementary Schools ; by the Rev. W. A. Willock , D.D. ” " On the Application of the Principles of ...
Pagina xii
... America whe shall determine by experiment whether all rays of light , and other physical rays , are or are not ... American plants , as it contains full sets of nearly all the collections made by the numerous exploring expeditions ...
... America whe shall determine by experiment whether all rays of light , and other physical rays , are or are not ... American plants , as it contains full sets of nearly all the collections made by the numerous exploring expeditions ...
Pagina xiii
... America , with a view to identifying the species , and of system- atizing the study of their relations and habits . This is ... American natural history is to be found in the department of entomology , there being no original treatise in ...
... America , with a view to identifying the species , and of system- atizing the study of their relations and habits . This is ... American natural history is to be found in the department of entomology , there being no original treatise in ...
Pagina xv
... American inventions belonging to the latter class . 2. The completion and effective maintenance of a line of telegraph across the American Continent , from the Mississippi to the Pacific . 3. The gen- eral announcement of Bunsen and ...
... American inventions belonging to the latter class . 2. The completion and effective maintenance of a line of telegraph across the American Continent , from the Mississippi to the Pacific . 3. The gen- eral announcement of Bunsen and ...
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Pagina ix - I first entered this city, the whole of the machinery was executed by hand. There were neither planing, slotting, nor shaping machines, and, with the exception of very imperfect lathes and a few drills, the preparatory operations of construction were effected entirely by the hands of the workmen.
Pagina 150 - The result of this would be a state of universal rest and death, if the universe were finite and left to obey existing laws. But as no limit is known to the extent of matter, science points rather to an endless progress through an endless space, of action involving the transformation of potential energy through palpable motion into heat, than to a single finite mechanism, running down like a clock and stopping for ever. It is also impossible to conceive either the beginning or the continuance of...
Pagina 201 - The colloidal is, in fact, a dynamical state of matter; the crystalloidal being the statical condition. The colloid possesses Energia. It may be looked upon as the probable primary source of the force appearing in the phenomena of vitality.