The Scientific Monthly, Volumul 15James McKeen Cattell American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1922 |
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... possible relationship of solar activity to weather is a part of a rather specialized department of astronomical science , called astrophysics . And there is a great deal of help which one . wants from that science , but which one can ...
... possible relationship of solar activity to weather is a part of a rather specialized department of astronomical science , called astrophysics . And there is a great deal of help which one . wants from that science , but which one can ...
Pagina 12
... possible to assign 2,500 years as the approximate time it took this giant to reach its pres- ent immense diameter of close to 30 feet . But about three miles west near a running brook is a stump which is over twenty - five feet in ...
... possible to assign 2,500 years as the approximate time it took this giant to reach its pres- ent immense diameter of close to 30 feet . But about three miles west near a running brook is a stump which is over twenty - five feet in ...
Pagina 14
... possible to reach the centers of most pine trees . It would not be difficult to develop an instrument much more efficient than this and it should be done . Soon a borer will be needed to pass through a 35 - foot tree or to sound the ...
... possible to reach the centers of most pine trees . It would not be difficult to develop an instrument much more efficient than this and it should be done . Soon a borer will be needed to pass through a 35 - foot tree or to sound the ...
Pagina 18
... possible to determine the age of an ancient buried tree by finding the com- bination of short cycles its rings display and then determining when this combination or its regional equivalent existed in our historic measuring tape , the ...
... possible to determine the age of an ancient buried tree by finding the com- bination of short cycles its rings display and then determining when this combination or its regional equivalent existed in our historic measuring tape , the ...
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... possible doubt of the relative age here determined . This result showing that a Chaco Canyon ruin was built nearly a half century before Aztec is the first actual determination of such a difference in exact years . A single beam from ...
... possible doubt of the relative age here determined . This result showing that a Chaco Canyon ruin was built nearly a half century before Aztec is the first actual determination of such a difference in exact years . A single beam from ...
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Pagina 209 - Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not ; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Pagina 60 - There they stood, ranged along the hill-sides — met To view the last of me, a living frame For one more picture ! in a sheet of flame I saw them and I knew them all. And yet Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set And blew " Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came...
Pagina 205 - At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
Pagina 133 - ... and thus I got some very rare species. No poet ever felt more delighted at seeing his first poem published than I did at seeing, in Stephens' ' Illustrations of British Insects,' the magic words,
Pagina 205 - And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live : Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past ; as when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die ; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live...
Pagina 211 - ... that there is some question as to the earth or the sky, or the other elements of this world . . . respecting which one who is not a Christian has knowledge derived from most certain reasoning or observation : and it is very disgraceful and mischievous, and of all things to be carefully avoided, that a Christian, speaking of such matters as being according to the Christian scriptures, should be heard by an unbeliever talking such nonsense that the unbeliever, perceiving him to be as wide from...
Pagina 209 - Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying, It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king : for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments.
Pagina 134 - I was then utterly astonished at Sedgwick not being delighted at so wonderful a fact as a tropical shell being found near the surface in the middle of England. Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.
Pagina 134 - ... if really embedded there it would be the greatest misfortune to geology, as it would overthrow all that we know about the superficial deposits of the Midland Counties.
Pagina 188 - Mayor, director of the department of marine biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, have added greatly to the knowledge of that remote possession of ours in recent years.