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 vi
... earth , it has been found that the study of the changes at present going on in the world around us enables us to understand the past revolutions of the globe , and the conditions and circumstances under which strata have been formed ...
... earth , it has been found that the study of the changes at present going on in the world around us enables us to understand the past revolutions of the globe , and the conditions and circumstances under which strata have been formed ...
Pagina xvi
... earth of a brilliant and heretofore unrecognized comet . The value of the laws deduced by modern scientific research for the preservation of health and the prevention of desease have also received a most striking illustration during the ...
... earth of a brilliant and heretofore unrecognized comet . The value of the laws deduced by modern scientific research for the preservation of health and the prevention of desease have also received a most striking illustration during the ...
Pagina xviii
... Earth- work ; illustrated by numerous original engravings , and a series of lithographic drawings from models , showing all the solid forms which occur in railroad excavations and embankments ; by John Warner , A. M. , author of Studies ...
... Earth- work ; illustrated by numerous original engravings , and a series of lithographic drawings from models , showing all the solid forms which occur in railroad excavations and embankments ; by John Warner , A. M. , author of Studies ...
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... earth or stones ; further , there were the battering - rams and the catapults ( trebuchets ) , mangonels , calabres , and pierriers , all of which were worked by counterpoise , and possessed accuracy of aim , to the prevention of the ...
... earth or stones ; further , there were the battering - rams and the catapults ( trebuchets ) , mangonels , calabres , and pierriers , all of which were worked by counterpoise , and possessed accuracy of aim , to the prevention of the ...
Pagina 34
... earth forms a great magnet , whose magnetism is maintained by the sun ; and that the magnetic condition of al metals is more or less depending upon the great parent magnet . A steel magnet that has lost its power or tension , when ...
... earth forms a great magnet , whose magnetism is maintained by the sun ; and that the magnetic condition of al metals is more or less depending upon the great parent magnet . A steel magnet that has lost its power or tension , when ...
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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.