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Pagina iv
... observe how promptly the inventive faculty of man supplies the device which the circumstances of the moment require . No sooner is a road formed fit for wheeled carriages to pass along than the cart takes the place of the pack - saddle ...
... observe how promptly the inventive faculty of man supplies the device which the circumstances of the moment require . No sooner is a road formed fit for wheeled carriages to pass along than the cart takes the place of the pack - saddle ...
Pagina v
... observations made in one country are in a great measure lost to another from the labor required to convert a series of quantities into new denominations . International commerce is also impeded by the same cause , which is productive of ...
... observations made in one country are in a great measure lost to another from the labor required to convert a series of quantities into new denominations . International commerce is also impeded by the same cause , which is productive of ...
Pagina vii
... observations of the meteorologist show that the de- crease of temperature with elevation does not follow the law previously assumed of 1o in 300 feet , and that in fact it follows no definite law at all . Mr. Glaisher appears also to ...
... observations of the meteorologist show that the de- crease of temperature with elevation does not follow the law previously assumed of 1o in 300 feet , and that in fact it follows no definite law at all . Mr. Glaisher appears also to ...
Pagina 27
... observe , that , after looking through the barrel for half a minute , and turning it around in their fingers , they lay it down upon a small anvil standing at their side , and strike upon it a gentle blow with a hammer , and then raise ...
... observe , that , after looking through the barrel for half a minute , and turning it around in their fingers , they lay it down upon a small anvil standing at their side , and strike upon it a gentle blow with a hammer , and then raise ...
Pagina 73
... observed that the most important differences between the power of the first Monitor and the Tecumseh consist in the armor and armament the offensive and defensive attributes . Instead of four and one - half inches we have nine inches of ...
... observed that the most important differences between the power of the first Monitor and the Tecumseh consist in the armor and armament the offensive and defensive attributes . Instead of four and one - half inches we have nine inches of ...
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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.