The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art, Volume 13Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1862 |
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... containing iron , sodium , lithium , and other metals in a vaporous condition . 66 Magnetism.— Guided by the same principles which have been so successful in Astronomy , its sister science , Magnetism , emerging from its infancy , has ...
... containing iron , sodium , lithium , and other metals in a vaporous condition . 66 Magnetism.— Guided by the same principles which have been so successful in Astronomy , its sister science , Magnetism , emerging from its infancy , has ...
Pagina vi
... contains ni- trogen , and has shown that it is a definite compound of carbon and iron , mixed with various proportions of metallic iron , according to its nature . --- " Geology . It is little more than half a century since Geology as ...
... contains ni- trogen , and has shown that it is a definite compound of carbon and iron , mixed with various proportions of metallic iron , according to its nature . --- " Geology . It is little more than half a century since Geology as ...
Pagina xii
... contains full sets of nearly all the collections made by the numerous exploring expeditions of the United States Government , from that of Maj . Long , in 1819 , to the present time , and the original specimens from which the ...
... contains full sets of nearly all the collections made by the numerous exploring expeditions of the United States Government , from that of Maj . Long , in 1819 , to the present time , and the original specimens from which the ...
Pagina xvii
... contains much information important to the geologist , meteorologist , and to civil engineers generally . It also contains a very full discussion of the theory of hydraulics as applied to rivers . The Birds of North America , containing ...
... contains much information important to the geologist , meteorologist , and to civil engineers generally . It also contains a very full discussion of the theory of hydraulics as applied to rivers . The Birds of North America , containing ...
Pagina xviii
... contains , also , a separate theoretical treatise , and an appendix on graphical processes , the methods of equivalent square bases and equivalent level heights ; and is splendidly illustrated with plates , scales and diagrams of all ...
... contains , also , a separate theoretical treatise , and an appendix on graphical processes , the methods of equivalent square bases and equivalent level heights ; and is splendidly illustrated with plates , scales and diagrams of all ...
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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.