Nature, Volumen65

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Sir Norman Lockyer
Macmillan Journals Limited, 1902

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Página 55 - In primis hoc volunt persuadere, non interire animas, sed ab aliis post mortem transire ad alios, atque hoc maxime ad virtutem excitari putant, metu mortis neglecto. Multa praeterea de sideribus atque eorum motu, de mundi ac terrarum magnitudine, de rerum natura, de deorum immortalium vi ac potestate, disputant et juventuti tradunt.
Página 108 - Dr. WT Blanford received his scientific education at the Royal School of Mines, and, after special instruction in the methods of geological surveying under Prof, (afterwards Sir Andrew) Ramsay on the English Geological Survey, proceeded in 1855 to take up a post on the Geological Survey of India. Between the years 1855 and 1868, when he was engaged in surveying different parts of India and Burma, he published a number of valuable papers on Indian geology, and upon malacology and other branches of...
Página 290 - We have long and fully resolved with Ourself to extend not only the boundaries of the Empire, but also the very arts and sciences. Therefore we look with favour upon all forms of learning, but with particular grace we encourage philosophical studies, especially those which by actual experiments attempt either to shape out a new philosophy or to perfect the old.
Página 89 - they were in large flocks containing both species in the proportion of two of the former to one of the latter " (the present)
Página 120 - CHAPMAN, F. — On the Foraminifera collected round the Funafuti Atoll from shallow and moderately deep water.
Página 69 - For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
Página 79 - Dealing with the means for physical and mental characters we are forced to the perfectly definite conclusion : That the mental characters in man are inherited in precisely the same manner as the physical.
Página 291 - Therefore we look with favour upon all forms of learning, but with particular grace we encourage philosophical studies, especially those which by actual experiments attempt either to shape out a new philosophy or to perfect the old. In order, therefore, that such studies, which have not hitherto been sufficiently brilliant in any part of the world, may shine conspicuously amongst our people, and that at length the whole world of letters may always recognize us not only as the Defender of the Faith,...
Página 163 - ... when electrically excited emits a brilliant flame-coloured light; and one of the heavy gases, which we called krypton, or 'the hidden one,' is characterised by two brilliant lines, one in the yellow and one in the green part of the spectrum. The third gas, named xenon, or 'the stranger,' gives out a greenish-blue light and is remarkable for a very complex spectrum, in which blue lines are conspicuous.
Página 51 - One feels the water, the sky, the birds above, but with no thoughts about them or memories of how they looked at other times, or aesthetic judgments about their beauty ; one feels no ideas about what movements he will make, but feels himself make them, feels his body throughout. Self-consciousness dies away. Social consciousness dies away. The meanings, and values, and connections of things die away. One feels sense-impressions, has impulses, feels the movements he makes ; that is all.

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