Catalogue of the Wheeler Gift of Books: Pamphlets and Periodicals in the Library of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Volume 1The Institute, 1909 - 475 pagina's |
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... lodestone , mariner's compass , etc. , have been more than verified by my own examination of the books since their arrival in this country . There are among its 7,000 titles many books which are not to be found in either of the famous ...
... lodestone , mariner's compass , etc. , have been more than verified by my own examination of the books since their arrival in this country . There are among its 7,000 titles many books which are not to be found in either of the famous ...
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... lodestone , the mariner's compass , and related sub- jects , from the early poems of Lucretius and Claudian to the letter which Klaproth wrote to Humboldt in 1834 , and Ber- telli's memoirs on magnetic history , 1868. To mention but a ...
... lodestone , the mariner's compass , and related sub- jects , from the early poems of Lucretius and Claudian to the letter which Klaproth wrote to Humboldt in 1834 , and Ber- telli's memoirs on magnetic history , 1868. To mention but a ...
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... forme extending rounde about the Stone ( lodestone ) whose center is the center of the aforesaid Vertue , " which spherical space was accord- ingly named orbis virtutis by Gilbert in 1600 and filled 30 CATALOGUE OF WHEELER GIFT.
... forme extending rounde about the Stone ( lodestone ) whose center is the center of the aforesaid Vertue , " which spherical space was accord- ingly named orbis virtutis by Gilbert in 1600 and filled 30 CATALOGUE OF WHEELER GIFT.
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... lodestone , he obtained thick tufts at the polar ends with curved lines round the equatorial parts . The figure on page 316 of his Philosophia Magnetica , 1629 , is the first representation of the kind that we have of the magnetic field ...
... lodestone , he obtained thick tufts at the polar ends with curved lines round the equatorial parts . The figure on page 316 of his Philosophia Magnetica , 1629 , is the first representation of the kind that we have of the magnetic field ...
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... lodestone of onions and garlic ; and yet so widespread was the popular belief in this figment that sailors , while steering by the com- pass , were forbidden the use of onions and garlic lest they intoxicate the " index of the pole ...
... lodestone of onions and garlic ; and yet so widespread was the popular belief in this figment that sailors , while steering by the com- pass , were forbidden the use of onions and garlic lest they intoxicate the " index of the pole ...
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Pagina 430 - Notes of a Course of Nine Lectures on Light, delivered at the Royal Institution, AD 1869. By Professor TYNDALL. Crown 8vo.
Pagina 343 - ELEMENTS OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY; being an Experimental Introduction to the Study of the Physical Sciences. With numerous Engravings.
Pagina 430 - NOTES of a COURSE of SEVEN LECTURES On ELECTRICAL PHENOMENA and THEORIES, delivered at the Royal Institution AD 1870.
Pagina 347 - The Britannia and Conway tubular bridges: with general inquiries on beams and on the properties of materials used in construction.
Pagina 413 - Bridges. Estimates and Diagrams of Railway Bridges for Turnpike, Public, and Occupation Roads, in the Embankments of Double or Single Lines, and cuttings of Double Lines, with...
Pagina 193 - To which are added Letters and papers on philosophical subjects. The whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now first collected into one volume, and illustrated with copper plates.
Pagina 329 - Observations on Days of Unusual Magnetic Disturbance, made at the British Colonial Magnetic Observatories under the Departments of the Ordnance and Admiralty, printed by the British Government under the Superintendence of Lieut.-Col.
Pagina 407 - The Metric System. A SERIES OF METRIC TABLES, in which the British Standard Measures and Weights are compared with those of the Metric System at present in use on the Continent. By CH DOWLING, CE Second Edition, revised and enlarged.
Pagina 191 - The Philosophy of Earthquakes, Natural and Religious; or, An Inquiry into their Cause, and their Purpose.
Pagina 272 - An attempt to establish a pure scientific system of mineralogy by the application of the electro-chemical theory and the chemical proportions (London, 1814).