The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art, Volume 13Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1862 |
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... North America whe shall determine by experiment whether all rays of light , and other physical rays , are or are not transmitted with the same velocity . " The award is to be made by a committee of three citizens of the United States ...
... North America whe shall determine by experiment whether all rays of light , and other physical rays , are or are not transmitted with the same velocity . " The award is to be made by a committee of three citizens of the United States ...
Pagina xiii
... North America , with a view to identifying the species , and of system- atizing the study of their relations and habits . This is a subject not only of much scientific interest , but also of great practical importance in regard to its ...
... North America , with a view to identifying the species , and of system- atizing the study of their relations and habits . This is a subject not only of much scientific interest , but also of great practical importance in regard to its ...
Pagina xvii
... North America , containing Descriptions of all known Species , chiefly from specimens in the Museum of the Smithsonian In- stitution . By S. F. Baird , with the co - operation of John Cassin and George N. Laurence ; one vol . 4to , with ...
... North America , containing Descriptions of all known Species , chiefly from specimens in the Museum of the Smithsonian In- stitution . By S. F. Baird , with the co - operation of John Cassin and George N. Laurence ; one vol . 4to , with ...
Pagina xviii
... North America , from Greenland to Georgia , by Theodore Gill . This work , which forms a part of the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia , and has also been published separately , gives as complete an ...
... North America , from Greenland to Georgia , by Theodore Gill . This work , which forms a part of the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia , and has also been published separately , gives as complete an ...
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... north to south : the measures , however , being exclusive of a wing devoted to machinery , the area of which is 872 feet by 200 feet , going directly north and south , at a right angle , therefore , to the main construction . Looking at ...
... north to south : the measures , however , being exclusive of a wing devoted to machinery , the area of which is 872 feet by 200 feet , going directly north and south , at a right angle , therefore , to the main construction . Looking at ...
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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.