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Pagina 20
... mountains of rock , and viaducts stretching across valleys , alternating with each other ; each part a triumph of modern science and skill . The incline reaches at one long lift the height of 1,832 feet , the highest elevation yet ...
... mountains of rock , and viaducts stretching across valleys , alternating with each other ; each part a triumph of modern science and skill . The incline reaches at one long lift the height of 1,832 feet , the highest elevation yet ...
Pagina 29
... defects in scenic arrange- ments by the following means . At present , our mountains , towns , and villages are of one piece with the back - scene 3 * MECHANICS AND USEFUL ARTS . 29 ample supply of oxygen is afforded, and all the ...
... defects in scenic arrange- ments by the following means . At present , our mountains , towns , and villages are of one piece with the back - scene 3 * MECHANICS AND USEFUL ARTS . 29 ample supply of oxygen is afforded, and all the ...
Pagina 30
... mountains or towns of the background are independent of the sky , and stand forth in real relief ; so do his trees or shrubs , which are made to rise from or descend below the floor . As for those objects which are nearer the foreground ...
... mountains or towns of the background are independent of the sky , and stand forth in real relief ; so do his trees or shrubs , which are made to rise from or descend below the floor . As for those objects which are nearer the foreground ...
Pagina 80
... mountain on the earth's surface ; on approach- ing the moon's meridian , that mountain is , as it were , laid hold of by the moon , and forms a kind of handle by which the earth is pulled more quickly round . But when the meridian is ...
... mountain on the earth's surface ; on approach- ing the moon's meridian , that mountain is , as it were , laid hold of by the moon , and forms a kind of handle by which the earth is pulled more quickly round . But when the meridian is ...
Pagina 81
... mountain slopes by an Alpine climber , are all cases of mechanical energy drawn from the sun . Not , therefore , in a poetical , but in a purely mechanical sense , are we children of the sun . Without food , we should soon oxidize our ...
... mountain slopes by an Alpine climber , are all cases of mechanical energy drawn from the sun . Not , therefore , in a poetical , but in a purely mechanical sense , are we children of the sun . Without food , we should soon oxidize our ...
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Pagina 170 - It is conceivable that the various kinds of matter, now recognized as different elementary substances, may possess one and the same ultimate or atomic molecule existing in different conditions of movement. The essential unity of matter is an hypothesis in harmony with the equal action of gravity upon all bodies. We know the anxiety with which this point was investigated by Newton, and the care he took to ascertain that every kind of substance, ' metals, stones, woods, grain, salts, animal substances,'...
Pagina 256 - As with an invisible trowel, the mass is divided and subdivided into smaller and smaller portions, until it is reduced to an aggregation of granules not too large to build withal the finest fabrics of the nascent organism. And, then, it is as if a delicate finger traced out the line to be occupied by the spinal column, and moulded the contour of the body...
Pagina 306 - Thus, by means of repeated selection alone, the length of the ears has been doubled, their contents nearly trebled, and the " tillering" power of the seed increased five-fold.
Pagina 288 - The Negro exhibits permanently the imperfect brain, projecting lower jaw, and slender bent limbs of a Caucasian child some considerable time before the period of its birth. The aboriginal American represents the same child nearer birth. The Mongolian is an arrested infant newly born. And so forth.
Pagina 77 - The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton. So great and grand are they, that, in the contemplation of them, a certain force of character is requisite to preserve us from bewilderment.