The Nature of Light: With a General Account of Physical OpticsD. Appleton, 1876 - 356 pagini |
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Pagina 345 - Prof. MICHAEL FOSTER, MD Protoplasm and the Cell Theory. H. CHARLTON BASTIAN, MD, FRS The Brain as an Organ of Mind. Prof. AC RAMSAY, LL.D., FRS Earth Sculpture : Hills, Valleys, Mountains, Plains, Rivers, Lakes ; how they were Produced, and how they have been Destroyed.
Pagina 345 - FRS The Old Chemistry viewed from the New Stand-point. W. LAUDER LINDSAY, MD, FRSE Mind in the Lower Animals. Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, Bart, FRS On Ants and Bees. Prof. WT THISELTON DYER, BA, B.
Pagina 349 - This admirable monograph, by the distinguished Erving Professor of Chemistry in Harvard University, is the first American contribution to 'The International Scientific Series,' and a more attractive piece of work in the way of popular exposition upon a difficult subject has not appeared in a long time. It not only well sustains the character of the volumes with which it is associated, but its reproduction in European countries will be an honor to American science.
Pagina 347 - ... Law/ have we seen so many fruitful thoughts suggested in the course of a couple of hundred pages. ... To do justice to Mr. Bagehot's fertile book, would require a long article. With the best of intentions, we are conscious of having given but a sorry account of it in these brief paragraphs. But we hope we have said enough to commend it to the attention of the thoughtful leader."-
Pagina 348 - While, in the strongest manner, asserting the union of mind with brain, he yet denies ' the association of union in place ,* but asserts the union of close succession in time,' holding that ' the same being is, by alternate fits, under extended and under unextended consciousness.
Pagina 347 - ... proceeds as it has begun, it will more than fulfil the promise given to the reading public in its prospectus. The first volume, by Professor Tyndall, was a model of lucid and attractive scientific- exposition ; and now we have a second, by Mr. Walter Bagehot, which is not only very lucid and charming, but also original and suggestive in the highest degree. Nowhere since the publication of Sir Henry Maine's 'Ancient Law/ have we seen so many fruitful thoughts suggested in the course of a couple...