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Pagina vii
... star of Sirius , the great object- glass ( 18 inches in diameter ) , with which this most interesting discovery was made , was Mr. Clark's own manufacture , and was intended for the observatory of the University of Mississippi . In ...
... star of Sirius , the great object- glass ( 18 inches in diameter ) , with which this most interesting discovery was made , was Mr. Clark's own manufacture , and was intended for the observatory of the University of Mississippi . In ...
Pagina xi
... Stars . It is more than suspected by some of the European astronomers that an example of a star successively changing its color may now exist in the stellar body known as ninety- five Herculis . Mr. Higgins , in his observation on ...
... Stars . It is more than suspected by some of the European astronomers that an example of a star successively changing its color may now exist in the stellar body known as ninety- five Herculis . Mr. Higgins , in his observation on ...
Pagina 96
... thousand - millionth part of the current by leakage would be detected and estimated . The cost of this submarine section will exceed $ 1,500,000 . ON THE COMPARATIVE LIGHT OF THE SUN AND STARS . 96 ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY .
... thousand - millionth part of the current by leakage would be detected and estimated . The cost of this submarine section will exceed $ 1,500,000 . ON THE COMPARATIVE LIGHT OF THE SUN AND STARS . 96 ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY .
Pagina 97
... STARS . The following interesting research is communicated to Silliman's Journal by Mr. Alvan Clark , the discoverer of the companion to Sirius : " If we place a lens of known focal distance , one foot for instance , between the eye and ...
... STARS . The following interesting research is communicated to Silliman's Journal by Mr. Alvan Clark , the discoverer of the companion to Sirius : " If we place a lens of known focal distance , one foot for instance , between the eye and ...
Pagina 98
... star in the whole heavens . If his intrinsic splendor generally proves to be less than that of those stars whose distances have been measured , we need not infer that it is less than the average of existing stars ; for , in case of a ...
... star in the whole heavens . If his intrinsic splendor generally proves to be less than that of those stars whose distances have been measured , we need not infer that it is less than the average of existing stars ; for , in case of a ...
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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.