The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art, Volume 13Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1862 |
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Pagina iv
... increased the catalogue of the fixed stars , or those ' land- marks of the universe , ' as Sir John Herschel terms them , which never deceive the astronomer , navigator , or surveyor . ' The number of known planets and asteroids has ...
... increased the catalogue of the fixed stars , or those ' land- marks of the universe , ' as Sir John Herschel terms them , which never deceive the astronomer , navigator , or surveyor . ' The number of known planets and asteroids has ...
Pagina viii
... increasing enormously the destructive power of their ordnance . One of the results of this introduction of wrought ... increased . " Iron Bridges . We have seen a new era in the history of the - construction of bridges , resulting from ...
... increasing enormously the destructive power of their ordnance . One of the results of this introduction of wrought ... increased . " Iron Bridges . We have seen a new era in the history of the - construction of bridges , resulting from ...
Pagina xiii
... increase has been , from 50 species , re- corded in 1830 , to 350 species in 1860. We should also , says Profes- sor Owen , greatly over - estimate our present knowledge , were we to rest upon it a conclusion that there remained but ...
... increase has been , from 50 species , re- corded in 1830 , to 350 species in 1860. We should also , says Profes- sor Owen , greatly over - estimate our present knowledge , were we to rest upon it a conclusion that there remained but ...
Pagina xiv
... increased to sev- enteen individuals , including the three original ones ; and the hemi- one , the canna , and nilgau ... increase of insects injurious to vegetation . M. St. Hilaire , the late eminent nat- uralist , in presenting to the ...
... increased to sev- enteen individuals , including the three original ones ; and the hemi- one , the canna , and nilgau ... increase of insects injurious to vegetation . M. St. Hilaire , the late eminent nat- uralist , in presenting to the ...
Pagina xvi
... increases until the temperature of the flame rises high enough to fuse the plati- num , and thus puts an end to the experiment . " - If , therefore , the lines of the spectra vary with the temperature of the burning bodies , and if the ...
... increases until the temperature of the flame rises high enough to fuse the plati- num , and thus puts an end to the experiment . " - If , therefore , the lines of the spectra vary with the temperature of the burning bodies , and if the ...
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Pagina ix - I first entered this city, the whole of the machinery was executed by hand. There were neither planing, slotting, nor shaping machines, and, with the exception of very imperfect lathes and a few drills, the preparatory operations of construction were effected entirely by the hands of the workmen.
Pagina 150 - The result of this would be a state of universal rest and death, if the universe were finite and left to obey existing laws. But as no limit is known to the extent of matter, science points rather to an endless progress through an endless space of action, involving the transformation of potential energy through palpable motion into heat, than to a single finite mechanism, running down like a clock and stopping forever.
Pagina xii - THE BOYDEN PREMIUM URIAH A. BOYDEN, ESQ., of Boston, Mass., has deposited with THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE the sum of one thousand dollars, to be awarded as a premium to "Any resident of North America who shall determine by experiment whether all rays of light,* and other physical rays, are or are not transmitted with the same velocity.
Pagina 201 - The colloidal is, in fact, a dynamical state of matter; the crystalloidal being the statical condition. The colloid possesses Energia. It may be looked upon as the probable primary source of the force appearing in the phenomena of vitality.