Annals of Philosophy, Volume 6Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1823 - Science |
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... bodies , churches , meeting houses , & c . which , upon an average , consume a much smaller quantity of gas than the pri- vate lights , instead of equalling the public . In the Westminster station , the number of these occasional lights ...
... bodies , churches , meeting houses , & c . which , upon an average , consume a much smaller quantity of gas than the pri- vate lights , instead of equalling the public . In the Westminster station , the number of these occasional lights ...
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... bodies may , by combining , form a coloured compound , I confess I rather incline to the opinion , that lapis lazuli owes its colour to a peculiar non - metallic substance ; and I recommend the subject as worthy of the attention of ...
... bodies may , by combining , form a coloured compound , I confess I rather incline to the opinion , that lapis lazuli owes its colour to a peculiar non - metallic substance ; and I recommend the subject as worthy of the attention of ...
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... body of the district is granite , -a rock which indeed constitutes nine - tenths of the whole . On the edges of the granite , in different points of the coast , reposes a certain assemblage of rocks , which , from their intimate ...
... body of the district is granite , -a rock which indeed constitutes nine - tenths of the whole . On the edges of the granite , in different points of the coast , reposes a certain assemblage of rocks , which , from their intimate ...
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... body , as is usual in floors , it appeared ( as the miners termed it , from whom I received the account ) like a heap of attle , or rubbish ; just as if it had been thrown in that state into the cavity . The fragments were not rounded ...
... body , as is usual in floors , it appeared ( as the miners termed it , from whom I received the account ) like a heap of attle , or rubbish ; just as if it had been thrown in that state into the cavity . The fragments were not rounded ...
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body with it at the meeting . The floor , therefore , probably belongs to the same formation as the lode . " " Botallack is , however , the principal locality of the floors . Here they have been discovered , first , in slate . There is ...
body with it at the meeting . The floor , therefore , probably belongs to the same formation as the lode . " " Botallack is , however , the principal locality of the floors . Here they have been discovered , first , in slate . There is ...
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Page 346 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Page 110 - From the foregoing statements it may be safely inferred that " the mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea being the same in every part of the globe...
Page 76 - THE PHILOSOPHY OF Music ; being the substance of a Course of Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February and March 1877. By William Pole, FRS, FRSE, Mus.
Page 219 - Microscopical Observations on the Suspension of the Muscular Motions of the Vibrio tritici," which forms the Croonian Lecture for that year.
Page 157 - Travels ; comprising Observations made during a Residence in the Tarentaise, and various parts of the Grecian and Pennine Alps, in Savoy, and in Switzerland and Auvergne, in the years 1820, 1821, and 1822, with Remarks on the present State of Society, Manners, Religion, Agriculture, Climate, &c.
Page 468 - ... fracture and a vitreous lustre. These results were nearly uniform, in various trials ; and every thing seems to indicate that were the diamond a good conductor, it would be melted by the deflagrator ; and were it incombustible, a globule would be obtained by the compound blow-pipe.
Page 472 - FIRST STEPS TO BOTANY, Intended as popular Illustrations of the Science, leading to its study as a branch of general education. By JL DRUMMOND, MD 4th Edit. 12mo. with numerous Woodcuts, 9s.
Page 348 - God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew : for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till, the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
Page 314 - It is easily condensed by inverting a glass over the fume as it rises, when it soon renders the glass opaque with a white lining. Although there was a distinct and peculiar odour in the fume, I found that the condensed matter was tasteless, and that it did not effervesce with acids, or affect the test colours for alkalies. Besides as it is produced apparently in greater quantity, when both poles are terminated by plumbago, it seems possible that it is white volatilized carbon, giving origin, by its...
Page 315 - ... former experiments; they were easily detached from the plumbago by the slightest touch from the point of a knife, and when collected in a white porcelain dish, they rolled about like shot, when the vessel was turned one way and another. To detach any portions of unmelted plumbago which might adhere to them I carefully rubbed them between my thumb and finger in the palm of my hand. I then placed them upon a fragment of wedgewood ware, floated in a dish of mercury, and slid over them a small jar...