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Side viii
... discovered by a careful revision , I venture to hope that this Second Edition will fully justify the kind reception accorded to the book when it first appeared . LONDON , October 1879 . PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION . It is not without some ...
... discovered by a careful revision , I venture to hope that this Second Edition will fully justify the kind reception accorded to the book when it first appeared . LONDON , October 1879 . PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION . It is not without some ...
Side xiv
... discovered the principle of Specific Gravity - Screw of Archimedes CHAPTER IV . 280 TO 120 B.C. Erasistratus and Herophilus study the Human Body - Eratosthenes the Geographer lays down the First Parallel of Latitude and the First ...
... discovered the principle of Specific Gravity - Screw of Archimedes CHAPTER IV . 280 TO 120 B.C. Erasistratus and Herophilus study the Human Body - Eratosthenes the Geographer lays down the First Parallel of Latitude and the First ...
Side xv
... discovery of Refraction , and of its effect on the light of the Sun , Moon , and Stars - His discovery of the magnifying power of rounded glasses . CHAPTER VIII . SCIENCE OF THE MIDDLE AGES IN EUROPE . Roger Bacon - His ' Opus Majus ...
... discovery of Refraction , and of its effect on the light of the Sun , Moon , and Stars - His discovery of the magnifying power of rounded glasses . CHAPTER VIII . SCIENCE OF THE MIDDLE AGES IN EUROPE . Roger Bacon - His ' Opus Majus ...
Side xxiii
... Discovery of Hydrogen by Cavendish - He investigates the Composition of Water - Oxy- gen discovered by Priestley and Scheele - Priestley's Experi- ments - He fails to see the true bearing of his Discovery - His Political Troubles and ...
... Discovery of Hydrogen by Cavendish - He investigates the Composition of Water - Oxy- gen discovered by Priestley and Scheele - Priestley's Experi- ments - He fails to see the true bearing of his Discovery - His Political Troubles and ...
Side xxiv
... Discovery of a New Planet - Discovery of Binary Stars - Herschel studies Star - clusters and Nebula - Theory of Nebula being matter out of which Stars are made - The Motion of our Solar System through Space - Weight of the Earth ...
... Discovery of a New Planet - Discovery of Binary Stars - Herschel studies Star - clusters and Nebula - Theory of Nebula being matter out of which Stars are made - The Motion of our Solar System through Space - Weight of the Earth ...
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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...