Annals of Philosophy, Volume 6Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1823 - Science |
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... appear to contain any further necessary infor- mation respecting the temperature of our mines , in continuation with ... appears now to lie within the rule ; yet enough remains to distinguish this formation from all others , and to show ...
... appear to contain any further necessary infor- mation respecting the temperature of our mines , in continuation with ... appears now to lie within the rule ; yet enough remains to distinguish this formation from all others , and to show ...
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... appear new to us , and we shall add such facts from preceding observations as will be necessary for illustration . It is to be regretted that we are not able to do the same with regard to Norway ; but except the transition formation ...
... appear new to us , and we shall add such facts from preceding observations as will be necessary for illustration . It is to be regretted that we are not able to do the same with regard to Norway ; but except the transition formation ...
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... appear to have satisfactorily ascertained the presence of muriatic acid in atmospheric air under certain circumstances , and the same fact seems to have been discovered a second time within the last two or three years . M. Hermstadt ...
... appear to have satisfactorily ascertained the presence of muriatic acid in atmospheric air under certain circumstances , and the same fact seems to have been discovered a second time within the last two or three years . M. Hermstadt ...
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... appears to hold nearly the same view . " There is much reason ( he writes ) to consider it ( killas ) as an intimate ... appear chiefly to have been collected , would probably be the first to cancel or to modify . See especially p . 6 ...
... appears to hold nearly the same view . " There is much reason ( he writes ) to consider it ( killas ) as an intimate ... appear chiefly to have been collected , would probably be the first to cancel or to modify . See especially p . 6 ...
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... appear to be inverted , and the order of the lateral planes of several of the classes of prisms , when observed from left to right , would be reversed . The measurement of corresponding planes on different crys- tals will frequently ...
... appear to be inverted , and the order of the lateral planes of several of the classes of prisms , when observed from left to right , would be reversed . The measurement of corresponding planes on different crys- tals will frequently ...
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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.
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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...