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 250
... R. I. Murchison ; the subject being mainly a retrospect of the progress at- tained to during the last twenty years in our knowledge of the geol- ogy of the older rocks . In the commencement , alluding to the recent investigations ...
... R. I. Murchison ; the subject being mainly a retrospect of the progress at- tained to during the last twenty years in our knowledge of the geol- ogy of the older rocks . In the commencement , alluding to the recent investigations ...
Pagina 255
... R. I. Murchison further stated that , from recent geological re- searches , it would appear that in the southern hemisphere there is not merely a close analogy between the rocks of the Paleozoic age and our own , but , further , as far ...
... R. I. Murchison further stated that , from recent geological re- searches , it would appear that in the southern hemisphere there is not merely a close analogy between the rocks of the Paleozoic age and our own , but , further , as far ...
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... R. I. Murchison seem to prove the identity of these rocks with the oldest crystalline strata of western Scotland and Scandinavia , and Mr. Murchison proposes that the name Laurentian be adopted as a common appellation . These rocks are ...
... R. I. Murchison seem to prove the identity of these rocks with the oldest crystalline strata of western Scotland and Scandinavia , and Mr. Murchison proposes that the name Laurentian be adopted as a common appellation . These rocks are ...
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... R. I. Murchison , states that he greatly under- rated , in his published " Travels , " the magnitude of the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi River , which are probably the most wonderful in the world . Their breadth , which he had ...
... R. I. Murchison , states that he greatly under- rated , in his published " Travels , " the magnitude of the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi River , which are probably the most wonderful in the world . Their breadth , which he had ...
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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.