A Short History of Natural Science and of the Progress of Discovery: From the Time of the Greeks to the Present Day : for the Use of Schools and Young PersonsAppleton, 1884 - 467 pagini |
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Pagina xvi
... explained by the Undulatory Theory - Mr . Tylor's Illustration of Refraction - Double Refraction explained by Huyghens- Polarisation of Light not understood till the nineteenth century CHAPTER XXII . · 164 172 SUMMARY OF the SciencE OF ...
... explained by the Undulatory Theory - Mr . Tylor's Illustration of Refraction - Double Refraction explained by Huyghens- Polarisation of Light not understood till the nineteenth century CHAPTER XXII . · 164 172 SUMMARY OF the SciencE OF ...
Pagina xx
... explained by Young and Fresnel - Complex Vibrations of a Ray of Light - How these Waves are reduced to two separate Planes in passing through Iceland - spar - Sir David Brewster and M. Biot explain the colours produced by Polarisation ...
... explained by Young and Fresnel - Complex Vibrations of a Ray of Light - How these Waves are reduced to two separate Planes in passing through Iceland - spar - Sir David Brewster and M. Biot explain the colours produced by Polarisation ...
Pagina xxi
... explained on the theory that Heat is a kind of Motion - Dr . Mayer suggests the Determination of the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat - Dr . Joule's Experiments on the conversion of Motion into Heat - Dr . Hirn's Experiments on the ...
... explained on the theory that Heat is a kind of Motion - Dr . Mayer suggests the Determination of the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat - Dr . Joule's Experiments on the conversion of Motion into Heat - Dr . Hirn's Experiments on the ...
Pagina xxiii
... by Natural Causes - Difficulties in Natural History which are explained by this Theory - Foolish Prejudices against it - Concluding Remarks on the History of Science . · • 404 4'9 A SHORT HISTORY OF NATURAL SCIENCE . INTRODUCTION . AS.
... by Natural Causes - Difficulties in Natural History which are explained by this Theory - Foolish Prejudices against it - Concluding Remarks on the History of Science . · • 404 4'9 A SHORT HISTORY OF NATURAL SCIENCE . INTRODUCTION . AS.
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... explained to him ; but if he wishes to know the history of the steam- engine he must go back to the first one ever made , and study each new improvement as it arose . And so if we go back to the first attempts made by thoughtful men to ...
... explained to him ; but if he wishes to know the history of the steam- engine he must go back to the first one ever made , and study each new improvement as it arose . And so if we go back to the first attempts made by thoughtful men to ...
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Pagina 125 - Our business was (precluding matters of Theology and state affairs) to discourse and consider of Philosophical Enquiries, and such as related thereunto : as physick, anatomy, geometry, astronomy, navigation, staticks, magneticks, chymicks, mechanicks, and natural experiments ; with the state of these studies, as then cultivated at home and abroad.
Pagina 101 - ... that the squares of the periodic times of the planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.
Pagina 125 - Saturn, the spots in the sun, and its turning on its own axis", the inequalities and selenography of the moon, the several phases of Venus and Mercury, the improvement of telescopes, and grinding of glasses for that purpose, the weight of air, the possibility, or impossibility of vacuities, and nature's abhorrence thereof, the Torricellian experiment in quicksilver, the descent of heavy bodies, and the degrees of acceleration therein ; and divers other things of like nature.
Pagina 234 - The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air ; but I fancied that my breast felt peculiarly light and easy for some time afterwards. Who can tell but that, in time, this pure air may become a fashionable article in luxury Hitherto only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it."* * Dr.
Pagina 170 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.