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... Chemistry first studied by the Arabs — Alchemy , or the attempt to make Gold - Hermes the first Alchemist - Hermeti- cally - sealed Tubes - Gases and Vapours called ' Spirits ' by the Arabs PAGE . 39 CHAPTER VII . SCIENCE OF THE ARABS ...
... Chemistry first studied by the Arabs — Alchemy , or the attempt to make Gold - Hermes the first Alchemist - Hermeti- cally - sealed Tubes - Gases and Vapours called ' Spirits ' by the Arabs PAGE . 39 CHAPTER VII . SCIENCE OF THE ARABS ...
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... Chemistry of Paracelsus and Van Helmont CHAPTER X. . 61 SCIENCE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY ( CONTINUED ) Baptiste Porta discovers the Camera Obscura - Shows that our Eye is like a Camera Obscura - Makes a kind of Magic Lan- tern by ...
... Chemistry of Paracelsus and Van Helmont CHAPTER X. . 61 SCIENCE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY ( CONTINUED ) Baptiste Porta discovers the Camera Obscura - Shows that our Eye is like a Camera Obscura - Makes a kind of Magic Lan- tern by ...
Side xxi
... Chemistry of organic compounds by Boerhaave - Influence of Boerhaave upon the study of Medi- cine - Belief of the ... Chemical Lectures 189 CHAPTER XXIV . SCIENCE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ( CONTINUED ) . Childhood of Haller - Foundation ...
... Chemistry of organic compounds by Boerhaave - Influence of Boerhaave upon the study of Medi- cine - Belief of the ... Chemical Lectures 189 CHAPTER XXIV . SCIENCE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ( CONTINUED ) . Childhood of Haller - Foundation ...
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... Chemistry - Discovery of Fixed Air , ' or Car- bonic Acid , by Black and Bergmann - Working out of ' Che- mical Affinity ' by Bergmann - He tests Mineral Waters , and proves ' Fixed Air ' to be an Acid - Discovery of Hydrogen by ...
... Chemistry - Discovery of Fixed Air , ' or Car- bonic Acid , by Black and Bergmann - Working out of ' Che- mical Affinity ' by Bergmann - He tests Mineral Waters , and proves ' Fixed Air ' to be an Acid - Discovery of Hydrogen by ...
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... chemist— Law of Definite Proportions - Law of Multiple Proportions- Dalton's Atomic Theory - The Study of Organic Chemistry- Liebig , the great teacher in Organic Chemistry • · 378 CHAPTER XXXVIII . SCIENCE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY ...
... chemist— Law of Definite Proportions - Law of Multiple Proportions- Dalton's Atomic Theory - The Study of Organic Chemistry- Liebig , the great teacher in Organic Chemistry • · 378 CHAPTER XXXVIII . SCIENCE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY ...
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Side 99 - ... that the squares of the periodic times of the planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.
Side 123 - Our business was (precluding matters of Theology and state affairs) to discourse and consider of Philosophical Enquiries, and such as related thereunto : as physick, anatomy, geometry, astronomy, navigation, staticks, magneticks, chymicks, mechanicks, and natural experiments ; with the state of these studies, as then cultivated at home and abroad.
Side 123 - Saturn, the spots in the sun, and its turning on its own axis", the inequalities and selenography of the moon, the several phases of Venus and Mercury, the improvement of telescopes, and grinding of glasses for that purpose, the weight of air, the possibility, or impossibility of vacuities, and nature's abhorrence thereof, the Torricellian experiment in quicksilver, the descent of heavy bodies, and the degrees of acceleration therein ; and divers other things of like nature.
Side 170 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Side 123 - Jupiter, the oval shape (as it then appeared) of Saturn, the spots in the sun, and its turning on its own axis, the inequalities and selenography of the Moon, the several phases of Venus and Mercury, the improvement of telescopes...
Side 344 - It would be difficult to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed in the countenances of the bystanders on seeing so large a quantity of water heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire.
Side 52 - For we can give such figures to transparent bodies, and dispose them in such order with respect to the eye and the objects, that the rays shall be refracted and bent towards any place we please ; so that we shall see the object near at hand, or at a distance, under any angle we please. And thus from an incredible distance we may read the smallest letters, and may number the smallest particles of dust and sand, by reason of the greatness of the angle under which we may see them...
Side 92 - Alas ! your dear friend and servant has become totally and irreparably blind. These heavens, this earth, this universe, which by wonderful observation I had enlarged a thousand times beyond the belief of past ages, are henceforth shrunk into the narrow space I myself occupy. So it pleases God, it shall therefore please me also.
Side 351 - It may exist in one of two forms — either as potential or stored-up energy, which is unseen by us, or as visible energy, when it is actually performing work ; but while it changes from one form to another its amount never alters. Thus in Joule's experiment the energy stored up in the i Ib.
Side 417 - A dreadful affair,' I answered; 'but what else could be expected under the circumstances, and with such a ministry, except that it would end in the expulsion of the present royal family ? ' ' We do not seem to understand each other...