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Pagina i
... NATURAL PHILOSOPHY , CHEMISTRY , ASTRONOMY , GEOLOGY , ZOOLOGY , BOTANY , MINERALOGY , METEOROLOGY , GEOGRAPHY , ANTIQUITIES , ETC. TOGETHER WITH NOTES ON THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE DURING THE YEAR 1863 ; A LIST OF RECENT SCIENTIFIC ...
... NATURAL PHILOSOPHY , CHEMISTRY , ASTRONOMY , GEOLOGY , ZOOLOGY , BOTANY , MINERALOGY , METEOROLOGY , GEOGRAPHY , ANTIQUITIES , ETC. TOGETHER WITH NOTES ON THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE DURING THE YEAR 1863 ; A LIST OF RECENT SCIENTIFIC ...
Pagina xi
... nature . Berthelot has acted upon gly- cerine by putrefying animal matter , and obtained artificially grape sugar ; and has converted oil of turpentine into ordinary camphor and Borneo camphor ; whilst , in conjunction with De Luca , he ...
... nature . Berthelot has acted upon gly- cerine by putrefying animal matter , and obtained artificially grape sugar ; and has converted oil of turpentine into ordinary camphor and Borneo camphor ; whilst , in conjunction with De Luca , he ...
Pagina 17
... nature of this evil showed itself slowly but surely in the Bills of Mortality , and the then Commissioners of Sewers , who were feebly battling with the evils of the drainage system , set to work to mitigate the cesspool danger by ...
... nature of this evil showed itself slowly but surely in the Bills of Mortality , and the then Commissioners of Sewers , who were feebly battling with the evils of the drainage system , set to work to mitigate the cesspool danger by ...
Pagina 30
... nature pre- sents objects to us through a cone of visual rays drawn from the eye , the stage represents them in an exactly inverted position - that is , we see them through the base , instead of through the vertex of the cone . By M ...
... nature pre- sents objects to us through a cone of visual rays drawn from the eye , the stage represents them in an exactly inverted position - that is , we see them through the base , instead of through the vertex of the cone . By M ...
Pagina 41
... natural state , must constitute a large part of the filling of a safe in order to make its protection against fire in the highest degree avail- able , this water must be held in solid form so as to give strength to the safe ; and the ...
... natural state , must constitute a large part of the filling of a safe in order to make its protection against fire in the highest degree avail- able , this water must be held in solid form so as to give strength to the safe ; and the ...
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Populaire passages
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.