"Evolution of Sound" Evolved: A Review of the Article Entitled "The Nature of Sound" in "The Problem of Human Life."Standard Publishing Company, 1887 - 190 páginas |
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Página 1 - An' set your beauties a' abread ! Ye little ken what cursed speed The blastie 's makin' ! Thae winks and finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin' ! 0 wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion : What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion ! ROBERT BURNS.
Página 159 - And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
Página 3 - It is hardly necessary to add that anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the Heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION.
Página 145 - And sees them, when the rain is done, On the bridge of colors seven Climbing up once more to heaven, Opposite the setting sun. Thus the Seer, With vision clear, Sees forms appear and disappear, In the perpetual round of strange, Mysterious change From birth to death, from death to birth, From earth to heaven, from heaven to earth ; Till glimpses more sublime Of things, unseen before, Unto his wondering eves reveal The Universe, as an immeasurable wheel Turning forevermore In the rapid and rushing...
Página xv - ... fields of mental and moral beauty, so rich in the scenery of thought, and in endless variety, present themselves to our view. A secret rapture of thrilling delight fills the heart as we glance over this lovely scene, on which human research has thrown a splendor surpassing that of the noontide blaze. Had not some master spirits dared to freely speak and write their thoughts, then those pretended friends of science, who now oppose every thing that may appear to them both new and strange, would...
Página xvi - ... thereon ; and, if possible, let it scan the secret energies of his creating fiat, and even examine the raw material out of which worlds were manufactured. It is the most commonly received opinion in the Christian world, that God made all things out of nothing. It is true the inspired book does not say, or even hint this. It simply says — " In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth ;" but it does not add the words — out of nothing.
Página 27 - This one, you will remember, vibrates 256 times in a second, the length of the sonorous wave which it produces being, therefore, 4 feet 4 inches. The fork is now detached from its case, so that when struck against its pad you hardly hear it. I hold the vibrating fork over this glass jar, AB, fig.
Página 24 - ... from the cannon the velocity of sound rose to a maximum considerably above the ordinary velocity, and then fell gradually to about the velocity usually received.
Página 9 - ... of hearing, which it was supposed to affect in a manner resembling that in which our nostrils are affected when they give us the sensation of smell. Yet, even in those early years of science, there were some, and, in particular, the celebrated founder of the Stoic school, who held that sound, that is, the cause of sound, was only the particular motion of external fross matter, propagated to the ear, and Ihere producing that agitation of the organ by which the soul is immediately affected with...
Página 88 - ... greater or less intensity. Q. 12. On what law or principle does this sound-force travel when thus generated or liberated from the forceelement of Nature? A. By the same law or analogous principle on which I now ask the puzzled reader, who fails to see how the locust can fill an area two miles square with sonorous substance and not appreciably reduce its weight, to tell me, approximately, how much reynard has reduced his feet in size and weight by the clouds of odor diffused along his track for...