Annals of Philosophy, Volume 6Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1823 - Science |
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... described , it is a matter of inconceivable surprise that so very few accidents should have occurred . It appears to me that more mischief is to be apprehended from the bursting of those tanks which stand out of the ground , and indeed ...
... described , it is a matter of inconceivable surprise that so very few accidents should have occurred . It appears to me that more mischief is to be apprehended from the bursting of those tanks which stand out of the ground , and indeed ...
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... described by Mr. Carne is that of true veins , which consist of the following classes , enumerated in the order of their relative ages , as determined by the principle of intersection : 1. The oldest tin lodes ; 2. The more recent tin ...
... described by Mr. Carne is that of true veins , which consist of the following classes , enumerated in the order of their relative ages , as determined by the principle of intersection : 1. The oldest tin lodes ; 2. The more recent tin ...
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... described . " " .... XIII . An Account of the Alluvial Depositions at Sandrycock . By the late Philip Rashleigh , Esq . * The alluvial beds described in this communication are very similar to those at the stream - work of Poth , of ...
... described . " " .... XIII . An Account of the Alluvial Depositions at Sandrycock . By the late Philip Rashleigh , Esq . * The alluvial beds described in this communication are very similar to those at the stream - work of Poth , of ...
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... described . The first was very little below the surface : the last is about 36 fathoms deep : they are from six to twelve feet thick . The agents of Botallack have assured me , that although these floors appear to be connected with one ...
... described . The first was very little below the surface : the last is about 36 fathoms deep : they are from six to twelve feet thick . The agents of Botallack have assured me , that although these floors appear to be connected with one ...
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described , its formation may , perhaps , be accounted for on the same principles as the formation of all true veins ; but where there is a succession of floors , if junctions of lodes could bet satisfactorily shown at every point where ...
described , its formation may , perhaps , be accounted for on the same principles as the formation of all true veins ; but where there is a succession of floors , if junctions of lodes could bet satisfactorily shown at every point where ...
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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.
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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...