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 PersonsD. Appleton, 1876 - 467 pagini |
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Termeni și expresii frecvente
acid Alhazen anatomy animals Aristotle astronomer attraction Bacon began blood bodies Boerhaave born calculations called cause CENTURY CONTINUED chemical Chemistry chemists colours comet Cuvier cylinder Descartes died discovered discoveries earth electric current Encyclopædia exactly experiments explained facts famous fire-air fixed air fossils Galileo Geber Geology glass globe gravitation Greeks Guericke Haller Halley's method heat Herschel Huyghens hydrogen invented John Mayow Jupiter Kepler Lamarck light Linnæus living magnet Malpighi Mayow mercury metals moon move round named nature Newton observed oxygen pass phlogiston piece piston plants prism Professor proved Ptolemy published pull rays refracted remember rocks Roger Bacon round the sun Royal Society Rudolphine Tables scientific SEVENTEENTH CENTURY showed spectrum stars substances telescope theory tion took transit of Venus tube turned Tycho Tycho Brahe valve veins Venus Vesalius waves weight Willughby wire
Pasaje populare
Pagina 123 - 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 123 - 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.