Magazine of Popular Science, and Journal of the Useful Arts, Volumen11836 |
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... bodies . Whenever Science may be deprived , by death , of any of its distinguished ornaments , we shall endeavour to discharge the duty of communicating the particulars of their lives and labours in a Scientific Obituary . And we shall ...
... bodies . Whenever Science may be deprived , by death , of any of its distinguished ornaments , we shall endeavour to discharge the duty of communicating the particulars of their lives and labours in a Scientific Obituary . And we shall ...
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... bodies , and of some of the governments of Europe : nor can tables of the tides adapted to the present state of Science be now constructed , unless a very considerable expense be incurred from the immense labour required . " We have ...
... bodies , and of some of the governments of Europe : nor can tables of the tides adapted to the present state of Science be now constructed , unless a very considerable expense be incurred from the immense labour required . " We have ...
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... bodies scattered about in that great space , whatever it may be , which contains the earth , and he will have remarked that they do not alter their apparent relative positions , as he moves about on it . Their apparent positions , with ...
... bodies scattered about in that great space , whatever it may be , which contains the earth , and he will have remarked that they do not alter their apparent relative positions , as he moves about on it . Their apparent positions , with ...
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... bodies isolated and independent of one another , placed by chance , so that lines drawn from them to the eye nearly coincided , but that they are systems , of which the greatest of the group is the central and controlling mass , round ...
... bodies isolated and independent of one another , placed by chance , so that lines drawn from them to the eye nearly coincided , but that they are systems , of which the greatest of the group is the central and controlling mass , round ...
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... bodies which compose these far remote systems . What then , is the conclusion , but that all these multiplied and isolated systems which people space , and of which the universe is the aggregate , are subject to the same laws of motion ...
... bodies which compose these far remote systems . What then , is the conclusion , but that all these multiplied and isolated systems which people space , and of which the universe is the aggregate , are subject to the same laws of motion ...
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Página 135 - ... or information in any of his Majesty's courts of record at Westminster or in...
Página 87 - I do not love to be printed upon every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things, or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them, when I should be about the King's business.
Página 104 - One of the most remarkable and inexplicable experiments relative to the strength of the human frame, which you have yourself seen and admired, is that in which a heavy man is raised with the greatest facility, when he is lifted up the instant that his own lungs and those of the persons who raise him are inflated with air.
Página 104 - I shall describe, as nearly as possible, the method which he prescribed. The heaviest person in the party lies down upon two chairs, his legs being supported by the one, and his back by the other. Four persons, one at each leg, and one at each shoulder, then try to raise him, and they find his dead weight to be very great, from the difficulty they experience in supporting him.
Página 134 - ... declaration, a notice of any objections on which he means to rely at the trial of such action, and no objection shall be allowed to be made in behalf of such defendant or plaintiff respectively at such trial unless he prove the objections stated in such notice : provided always, that it shall and may be lawful for any judge at chambers, on summons served by such defendant or plaintiff on such plaintiff or defendant respectively to...
Página 104 - ... up the instant that his own lungs and those of the persons who raise him are inflated with air. This experiment was, I believe, first shown in England a few years ago by Major H., who saw it performed in a large party at Venice under the direction of an officer of the American navy.* As Major H.
Página 105 - ... when the inhalation is completed, or the lungs filled, the second signal is given for raising the person from the chair. To his own surprise, and that of his bearers, he rises with the greatest facility, as if he were no heavier than a feather. On several occasions, I have observed, that when one of the bearers performs his part ill by making the inhalation out of tim,e, the part of the body which he tries to raise is left as it were behind.
Página 135 - ... which he hath not or shall not have obtained letters patent, the name or any imitation of the name of any other person who hath or shall have obtained letters patent...
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