The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art, Volume 13Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1862 |
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... causes are in all other respects still wrapped in entire obscurity . We owe to General Sabine , especially , the recognition and study of these and other solar magnetic influences , and of the magnetic influence of the moon , similarly ...
... causes are in all other respects still wrapped in entire obscurity . We owe to General Sabine , especially , the recognition and study of these and other solar magnetic influences , and of the magnetic influence of the moon , similarly ...
Pagina ix
... causes , and the best means of overcoming the difficulties which present themselves . I had the honor to serve on that commission , and I believe that from the report , and mass of evidence and experimental research accumulated , the ...
... causes , and the best means of overcoming the difficulties which present themselves . I had the honor to serve on that commission , and I believe that from the report , and mass of evidence and experimental research accumulated , the ...
Pagina xi
... Causes of an Excessive Mortality in Early Life ; by Dr. Moore . " " On the Phys- ical Degeneration of Town Populations ; by Dr. Beddoe . " " On Hos- pital Statistics ; by Florence Nightingale . " " On the Influence of the Food on the ...
... Causes of an Excessive Mortality in Early Life ; by Dr. Moore . " " On the Phys- ical Degeneration of Town Populations ; by Dr. Beddoe . " " On Hos- pital Statistics ; by Florence Nightingale . " " On the Influence of the Food on the ...
Pagina xiii
... caused in this country by the ravages of the Hessian fly , the army and cotton worms , the curculio , the grass- hopper , and numerous other species of insects , it must be evident that anything that may tend , in however slight a ...
... caused in this country by the ravages of the Hessian fly , the army and cotton worms , the curculio , the grass- hopper , and numerous other species of insects , it must be evident that anything that may tend , in however slight a ...
Pagina 21
... caused to be built a vessel on the plan of the ancient Roman galley , or trireme , which has excited much attention and interest among persons who occupy themselves with naval archæology . The emperor , in ordering the execution of this ...
... caused to be built a vessel on the plan of the ancient Roman galley , or trireme , which has excited much attention and interest among persons who occupy themselves with naval archæology . The emperor , in ordering the execution of this ...
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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.