VIII. Acoustics. IX. Optics, formal and physical. X. Thermotics and atmology. XI. Electricity. XII. Magnetism. XIII. Galvanism, or Voltaic electricity. XIV. Chemistry. XV. Mineralogy. XVI. Systematic botany and zoology. XVII. Physiology and comparative anatomy. XVIII. Geology. Additions to the 3d edD. Appleton, 1858 - Science |
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... term of ignorance and of superficial contemplation . " Nor can it be justly denied , that an exact and distinct apprehension of the kind of motion of the air by which sound is diffused , was beyond the reach of the ancient philosophers ...
... term of ignorance and of superficial contemplation . " Nor can it be justly denied , that an exact and distinct apprehension of the kind of motion of the air by which sound is diffused , was beyond the reach of the ancient philosophers ...
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... terms of that classification of vibra- tions of which we have spoken . Yet we easily see that we may express it in a more general manner , without referring to that classifi- cation , by saying , that vibrations are communicated so as ...
... terms of that classification of vibra- tions of which we have spoken . Yet we easily see that we may express it in a more general manner , without referring to that classifi- cation , by saying , that vibrations are communicated so as ...
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... term sine , but he ex- presses the law in a geometrical form more simply . Even if he had attended to the law of the sines , he might reasonably have preferred his own way of stating it . James Gregory also independently discovered the ...
... term sine , but he ex- presses the law in a geometrical form more simply . Even if he had attended to the law of the sines , he might reasonably have preferred his own way of stating it . James Gregory also independently discovered the ...
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... 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 force and impetus , that they ...
... 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 force and impetus , that they ...
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... term Polarization . Huyghens was the discoverer of this class of facts . At the end of the treatise which we have already quoted , he says , " Before I quit the subject of this crystal , I will add one other marvellous phenomenon ...
... term Polarization . Huyghens was the discoverer of this class of facts . At the end of the treatise which we have already quoted , he says , " Before I quit the subject of this crystal , I will add one other marvellous phenomenon ...
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Page 585 - 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 299 - 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 89 - And in like manner, when a ray of light falls upon the surface of any pellucid body, and is there refracted or reflected, may not waves of vibrations, or tremors, be thereby excited in the refracting or reflecting medium at the point of incidence...
Page 251 - An account of several new Instruments and Processes for determining the Constants of a Voltaic Circuit.
Page 573 - The earth obeyed, and straight Opening her fertile womb teemed at a birth Innumerous living creatures, perfect forms, Limbed and full grown: out of the ground up rose As from his lair the wild beast where he wons In" forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den...
Page 56 - ... that the ratio of the sines of the angles of incidence and refraction is constant for refraction in the same medium, was effected by Snell and Descartes.
Page 449 - I had with him, which was but a little while before he died, what were the things which induced him to think of a circulation of the blood ? he answered me, that when he took notice that the valves in the veins of so many parts of the body were so placed that they gave free passage to the blood towards the heart, but opposed the passage of the venal blood the contrary way...
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Page 296 - The facts recorded in that lecture Faraday regards as of the utmost value. But ' the mode of action by which the effects take place is stated very generally ; so generally, indeed, that probably a dozen precise schemes of electro-chemical action might be drawn up, differing essentially from each other, yet all agreeing with the statement there given.
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