Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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Pagina 49
... experiment is slightly hazardous , but we resolve to try . The crater appears to narrow gradu- ally to a sort of funnel far down below , through which we expect to issue into the glacier beneath . At the sides of the funnel are rocks ...
... experiment is slightly hazardous , but we resolve to try . The crater appears to narrow gradu- ally to a sort of funnel far down below , through which we expect to issue into the glacier beneath . At the sides of the funnel are rocks ...
Pagina 56
... experiments on Mont Blanc . Dr. Frankland was kind enough to undertake their execution . Six candles were chosen at Chamouni , and carefully weighed . All of them were permitted to burn for one hour at the top , and were again weighed ...
... experiments on Mont Blanc . Dr. Frankland was kind enough to undertake their execution . Six candles were chosen at Chamouni , and carefully weighed . All of them were permitted to burn for one hour at the top , and were again weighed ...
Pagina 57
... some minds ; and to my companions the notion of spending a night at the top of Mont Blanc was passing strange . The thing had never been attempted previously , nor has the experiment 1859 ] THERMOMETRIC STATION ON MONT BLANC . 57.
... some minds ; and to my companions the notion of spending a night at the top of Mont Blanc was passing strange . The thing had never been attempted previously , nor has the experiment 1859 ] THERMOMETRIC STATION ON MONT BLANC . 57.
Pagina 58
John Tyndall. had never been attempted previously , nor has the experiment been repeated since . As stated at p . 17 , I made an attempt during the execrable weather of 1860 to reach the top , but was driven down after a delay of twenty ...
John Tyndall. had never been attempted previously , nor has the experiment been repeated since . As stated at p . 17 , I made an attempt during the execrable weather of 1860 to reach the top , but was driven down after a delay of twenty ...
Pagina 65
... Experiments made in 1849 with such a jet directed my attention to the origin of the sound of agitated water . When the smoke is projected from the lips of a tobacco- smoker , a little explosion usually occurs , which is chiefly due to ...
... Experiments made in 1849 with such a jet directed my attention to the origin of the sound of agitated water . When the smoke is projected from the lips of a tobacco- smoker , a little explosion usually occurs , which is chiefly due to ...
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Pagina 460 - Fresh pearls to their enamel gave, And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.
Pagina 292 - Did the thought which now ran back to it simply return to its primeval home ? If so, had we not better recast our definitions of matter and force; for if life and thought be the very flower of both, any definition which omits life and thought must be inadequate, if not untrue.
Pagina 190 - Ever young, ever mighty — with the vigor of a thousand worlds still within him — the real sculptor was even then climbing up the eastern sky. It was he who raised aloft the waters which cut out these ravines; it was he who planted the glaciers on the...
Pagina 291 - I tried to look at this universal cloud, containing within itself the prediction of all that has since occurred ; I tried to imagine it as the seat of those forces whose action was to issue in solar and stellar systems, and all that they involve. Did that formless fog contain potentially the sadness with which I regarded 458 FRAGMENTS OF SCIENCE. the Matterhorn ? Did the thought which now ran back to it simply return to its primeval home...