History of the inductive sciences from the earliest to the present time v. 2, Volume 2D. Appleton and Company, 1858 |
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... reason can travel through a cer- tain province of the external world . We have to throw a bridge which may lead from the chambers of our own thoughts , from our speculative principles , to the distant shore of material facts . But in ...
... reason can travel through a cer- tain province of the external world . We have to throw a bridge which may lead from the chambers of our own thoughts , from our speculative principles , to the distant shore of material facts . But in ...
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... reason to despair of one day uniting them by clear ideas of mechanical causation , and thus of making acoustics a perfect secondary mechanical science . The historical sketch just given includes only such parts of acoustics as have been ...
... reason to despair of one day uniting them by clear ideas of mechanical causation , and thus of making acoustics a perfect secondary mechanical science . The historical sketch just given includes only such parts of acoustics as have been ...
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... reason why Formal Astronomy was almost complete before Physical Astronomy began to exist , was , that it was necessary to construct the science of Mechanics in the mean time , in order to be able to go on ; whereas , in Optics ...
... reason why Formal Astronomy was almost complete before Physical Astronomy began to exist , was , that it was necessary to construct the science of Mechanics in the mean time , in order to be able to go on ; whereas , in Optics ...
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... reason for this in the most satisfactory manner , by showing that the rays which , after two refractions and a reflection , come to the eye at an angle of about forty - one degrees with their original direction , are far more dense than ...
... reason for this in the most satisfactory manner , by showing that the rays which , after two refractions and a reflection , come to the eye at an angle of about forty - one degrees with their original direction , are far more dense than ...
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... reason any otherwise than in the terms and notions of his preconceived hypotheses . The conclusion which he draws is , " that " the particles of the subtile matter which transmit the action of light , endeavor to rotate with so great a ...
... reason any otherwise than in the terms and notions of his preconceived hypotheses . The conclusion which he draws is , " that " the particles of the subtile matter which transmit the action of light , endeavor to rotate with so great a ...
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Page 579 - Each cast at the other, as when two black clouds, With heaven's artillery fraught, come rattling on Over the Caspian ; then stand front to front, Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air...
Page 297 - I at first laid down, namely, that the chemical power of a current of electricity is in direct proportion to the absolute quantity of electricity which passes (377, 783).
Page 583 - The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted, in His works, any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration.
Page 567 - The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts, then springs, as broke from bonds, And rampant shakes his brinded mane...
Page 518 - Thus, though his general ideas obtained universal currency, he did not assume his due prominence as a geologist. In 1818, a generous attempt was made to direct a proper degree of public gratitude to him, in an article in the Edinburgh Review, the production of Dr. Fitton, a distinguished English geologist. And when the eminent philosopher, Wollaston, had bequeathed to the Geological Society of London a fund from which a gold medal was to be awarded to geological services, the first of such medals...
Page 270 - Subterranea, he speaks of the chemists as a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasure among smoke and vapor, soot and flame, poisons and poverty. " Yet among all these evils," he says, " I seem to myself to live so sweetly, that, may I die if I would change places with the Persian king.
Page 464 - He heard and saw all this, with much interest and distinct comprehension ; but when I had done, he shook his head and said : ' This is no experiment, this is an idea.
Page 294 - My desire to escape from trade, which I thought vicious and selfish, and to enter into the service of Science, which I imagined made its pursuers amiable and liberal, induced me at last to take the bold and simple step of writing to Sir H. Davy...
Page 260 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven ; The roof was fretted gold.
Page 251 - An account of several new Instruments and Processes for determining the Constants of a Voltaic Circuit.