Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... , F. R. S. , AUTHOR OF " FRAGMENTS OF SCIENCE FOR UNSCIENTIFIC PEOPLE , " " HEAT AS A MODE OF MOTION , " ETC. , ETC. NEW YORK : D. APPLETON & COMPANY , 549 & 551 BROADWAY . 1875 . PREFACE . A SHORT TIME AGO I published a book.
... , F. R. S. , AUTHOR OF " FRAGMENTS OF SCIENCE FOR UNSCIENTIFIC PEOPLE , " " HEAT AS A MODE OF MOTION , " ETC. , ETC. NEW YORK : D. APPLETON & COMPANY , 549 & 551 BROADWAY . 1875 . PREFACE . A SHORT TIME AGO I published a book.
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... motion varying from a minimum of thirteen and a half inches to a maximum of twenty - two inches a day . To Mr. Hawkins I am indebted both for the fixing of the stakes and the reduction of the measurements to their diurnal rate ...
... motion varying from a minimum of thirteen and a half inches to a maximum of twenty - two inches a day . To Mr. Hawkins I am indebted both for the fixing of the stakes and the reduction of the measurements to their diurnal rate ...
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... motion , I am persuaded , might have been arrested soon after it had begun . • Bounding the snow - slope to the left was the ridge along which travellers to Courmayeur usually descend . It is rough , but absolutely without danger . The ...
... motion , I am persuaded , might have been arrested soon after it had begun . • Bounding the snow - slope to the left was the ridge along which travellers to Courmayeur usually descend . It is rough , but absolutely without danger . The ...
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... motion . It is alleged that when the party entered the summit of the col on the Chamouni side the guides proposed to return , but the Englishmen persisted in going forward . One thing alone could justify the proposition thus ascribed to ...
... motion . It is alleged that when the party entered the summit of the col on the Chamouni side the guides proposed to return , but the Englishmen persisted in going forward . One thing alone could justify the proposition thus ascribed to ...
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... motion . A homely illustration will render intelligible the course of action necessary under such conditions . Suppose a boy placed upon an oilcloth which covers . a polished table , and the table tilted to an angle of forty - five ...
... motion . A homely illustration will render intelligible the course of action necessary under such conditions . Suppose a boy placed upon an oilcloth which covers . a polished table , and the table tilted to an angle of forty - five ...
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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...