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 v
... nature and 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 ...
... nature and 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 ...
Pagina vi
... nature . --- " Geology . It is little more than half a century since Geology as- sumed the distinctive character of a science . Taking into considera- tion the aspects of nature in different epochs of the history of the earth , it has ...
... nature . --- " Geology . It is little more than half a century since Geology as- sumed the distinctive character of a science . Taking into considera- tion the aspects of nature in different epochs of the history of the earth , it has ...
Pagina xiii
... natural history , the same name is often popularly applied to widely different species . The greatest deficiency in American natural history is to be found in the department of entomology , there being no original treatise in reference ...
... natural history , the same name is often popularly applied to widely different species . The greatest deficiency in American natural history is to be found in the department of entomology , there being no original treatise in reference ...
Pagina xv
... nature and manufacture * More recent experiments would seem to show , that more has possibly been claimed for the researches of Bunsen and Kirchhoff than can be established , and that some of their conclusions have been too hasty ...
... nature and manufacture * More recent experiments would seem to show , that more has possibly been claimed for the researches of Bunsen and Kirchhoff than can be established , and that some of their conclusions have been too hasty ...
Pagina 19
... nature over again . Accordingly , a very large portion of the new construction is to be of brick , the roofs supported on cast - iron pillars , the roof itself of wood , protected by felt , and painted . Thus much for the materials ...
... nature over again . Accordingly , a very large portion of the new construction is to be of brick , the roofs supported on cast - iron pillars , the roof itself of wood , protected by felt , and painted . Thus much for the materials ...
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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.