The Microcosm: The Organ of Substantial Philosophy, Volumen8Hall & Company, 1891 |
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... professor should feel that the case as presented by Dr. Pearce called for some desperate remedy . Hence his first im- pulse as we suspect to deny the doctrine of the theory that the loudness of sound must correspond exactly to the width ...
... professor should feel that the case as presented by Dr. Pearce called for some desperate remedy . Hence his first im- pulse as we suspect to deny the doctrine of the theory that the loudness of sound must correspond exactly to the width ...
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... Professor Helmholtz tells us that its prongs move like a pendulum , " only very much faster . " He , of course , realizes that the fastest pendulum ever made could , under no possible conditions , be expected to carve the air into sound ...
... Professor Helmholtz tells us that its prongs move like a pendulum , " only very much faster . " He , of course , realizes that the fastest pendulum ever made could , under no possible conditions , be expected to carve the air into sound ...
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... Professor Helmholtz , who says , although he accepts the time - honored wave theory : " In daily experience , sound at first seems to be some agent , which is constantly advancing through the air and propagating itself further and ...
... Professor Helmholtz , who says , although he accepts the time - honored wave theory : " In daily experience , sound at first seems to be some agent , which is constantly advancing through the air and propagating itself further and ...
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... professors all over Great Britain , many of whom at once became converts to his views . Among these was Dr. Pearce , a Professor of Acoustics in Cambridge University , whose able paper in Musical Opinion called out the reply of Prof ...
... professors all over Great Britain , many of whom at once became converts to his views . Among these was Dr. Pearce , a Professor of Acoustics in Cambridge University , whose able paper in Musical Opinion called out the reply of Prof ...
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... professor's startling positions and arguments , one thing is certain , that no such novel , original and exciting geological discus- sion has ever before , at least to our knowledge , found its way into print , as that which we have the ...
... professor's startling positions and arguments , one thing is certain , that no such novel , original and exciting geological discus- sion has ever before , at least to our knowledge , found its way into print , as that which we have the ...
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absolute according action admit air-particles air-pulses air-waves annular argument Audsley body canopy cause claim compression condensations and rarefactions Darwin discovery disease dyspepsia earth effect energy entity existence fact force fork four cubic miles GEORGE ASHDOWN AUDSLEY give Hæckel Hall's Health-Pamphlet heat heaven Helmholtz immaterial inch insect light locust logical lymph matter mechanical ment mental MICROCOSM mind molecules motion motion-theories moving natural selection organic Park Row particle physical Problem of Human produce Prof Professor prong prove pulse rarefactions reader reason reply result ROBERT ROGERS scientific Sedley Taylor serpent sonorous sound-board sound-pulses sound-waves stridulating string Substantial Philosophy Substantial Theory sympathetic vibration teaching text-book Theistic evolution theory of acoustics theory of sound thing tion treatment tricity truth tuning-fork tympanic membrane Tyndall Typhon velocity vibrating vital wave wave-theory of sound WILFORD HALL Wood writes York Post
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Página 8 - And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
Página 8 - There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner, being an hundred years old, shall be accursed.
Página 22 - All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Página 160 - I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind...
Página 164 - Several writers have misapprehended or objected to the term Natural Selection. Some have even imagined that natural selection induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation of such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life.
Página 7 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Página 164 - Why should not Nature take a sudden leap from structure to structure ? On the theory of natural selection, we can clearly understand why she should not; for natural selection acts only by taking advantage of slight successive variations ; she can never take a great and sudden leap, but must advance by short and sure, though slow steps.
Página 121 - In the case of water, when the crests of one system of waves coincide with the crests of another system: higher waves will be the result of the coalescence of the two systems. But when the crests of one system coincide with the sinuses, or furrows, of the other system, the two systems, in whole or in part, destroy each other. This mutual destruction of two systems of waves is called interference. The same remarks apply to sonorous waves.
Página 147 - Imagine one of the prongs of the vibrating fork swiftly advancing ; it compresses the air immediately in front of it, and when it retreats it leaves a partial vacuum behind, the process being repeated by every subsequent advance and retreat.
Página 160 - I declare," says Dr. James Johnson, "my conscientious opinion, founded on long observation and reflection, that if there was not a single physician, surgeon, apothecary, manmidwife, chemist, druggist, or drug, on the face of the earth, there would be less sickness, and less mortality than now obtains.