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Pagina vi
... bodies have not been ascertained to impinge upon the sun in a definite direction from their gradually lessening orbits . And M. Faye , who has recently investigated the proper motions of the sun - spots , has pointed out many objections ...
... bodies have not been ascertained to impinge upon the sun in a definite direction from their gradually lessening orbits . And M. Faye , who has recently investigated the proper motions of the sun - spots , has pointed out many objections ...
Pagina viii
... body have made them umpires in many of the sanitary and even medical questions of the day . Such is the rapid advance of the chemical knowledge of common things , that physicians must be chemists to that degree as to be able to answer ...
... body have made them umpires in many of the sanitary and even medical questions of the day . Such is the rapid advance of the chemical knowledge of common things , that physicians must be chemists to that degree as to be able to answer ...
Pagina x
... bodies mov- ing in the interplanetary spaces by gravitation around the sun , and some perhaps around the planets , showing that the universe has not the empty spaces formerly attributed to it , but is studded with smaller planets ...
... bodies mov- ing in the interplanetary spaces by gravitation around the sun , and some perhaps around the planets , showing that the universe has not the empty spaces formerly attributed to it , but is studded with smaller planets ...
Pagina xi
... bodies . Our own satellite has been the subject of rigid scrutiny , yet the question whether the moon possesses any atmosphere cannot be regarded as solved ; if there be any , it must be exceedingly small in quantity and highly ...
... bodies . Our own satellite has been the subject of rigid scrutiny , yet the question whether the moon possesses any atmosphere cannot be regarded as solved ; if there be any , it must be exceedingly small in quantity and highly ...
Pagina 15
... body of directors , who had faith in the enterprise , and looked be- yond its present low estate to ultimate success . I cannot name them all , but I must speak of our Chairman , - the Right Hon . James Stuart Wortley , -a gentleman who ...
... body of directors , who had faith in the enterprise , and looked be- yond its present low estate to ultimate success . I cannot name them all , but I must speak of our Chairman , - the Right Hon . James Stuart Wortley , -a gentleman who ...
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Pagina 261 - a special mineralization producing a bituminous matter instead of coal or lignite. This operation is not attributable to heat, nor of the nature of a distillation, but is due to chemical reactions at the ordinary temperature, and under the normal conditions of climate.
Pagina 303 - When the ether spray thus produced is directed upon the outer skin, the skin is rendered insensible within a minute; but the effects do not end here. So soon as the skin is divided, the ether begins to exert on the nervous filaments the double action of cold and of etherization : so that the narcotism can be extended deeply to any desired extent. Pure rectified ether used in this manner is entirely negative ; it causes no irritation, and may be applied to a deep wound, as I shall show, without any...