Nature, Volumen5Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1872 |
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... various degrees of fineness seen in the different parts of the * Memoirs of the French Institute , 1829 . The dynamical theory shows that the length from crest to crest depends on the corresponding component of the solid's velocity ...
... various degrees of fineness seen in the different parts of the * Memoirs of the French Institute , 1829 . The dynamical theory shows that the length from crest to crest depends on the corresponding component of the solid's velocity ...
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... various orders of ring - surfaces and screw surfaces , and on many other tridimensional matters , would afford invaluable exercise to the student , besides having a real value to the scientific worker . I venture to express my ...
... various orders of ring - surfaces and screw surfaces , and on many other tridimensional matters , would afford invaluable exercise to the student , besides having a real value to the scientific worker . I venture to express my ...
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... various angles to the cleavage and bedding - plane , showing that they were developed after sedimentation , by crystal - generated . lisation in the mass , a circumstance which distinguishes them from rocks derived from the ruins of ...
... various angles to the cleavage and bedding - plane , showing that they were developed after sedimentation , by crystal - generated . lisation in the mass , a circumstance which distinguishes them from rocks derived from the ruins of ...
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... various materials have been deposited , with their present composition , as mechanical sedi- ments from the ruins of pre - existing rocks ; a hypothesis as un- tenable as that ancient one which supposed them to be the direct results of ...
... various materials have been deposited , with their present composition , as mechanical sedi- ments from the ruins of pre - existing rocks ; a hypothesis as un- tenable as that ancient one which supposed them to be the direct results of ...
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... various series at one time as the law of mutual adaptation may permit . " These series , as now found , are of two kinds the uninterrupted line of specifič , and the same uninterrupted line of generic characters . These are independent ...
... various series at one time as the law of mutual adaptation may permit . " These series , as now found , are of two kinds the uninterrupted line of specifič , and the same uninterrupted line of generic characters . These are independent ...
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Página 180 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Página 15 - Champlain, the Green Mountains of Vermont, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The...
Página 245 - Anatomy as a compendious, reliable, and, notwithstanding its small dimensions, most comprehensive guide on the subject of which it treats. To praise or to criticise the work of so accomplished a master of his favorite science would be equally out of place. It is enough to say that It realizes, in a remarkable degree, the anticipations which have been formed of it; and that it presents an extraordinary combination of wide, general views, with the clear, accurate, and succinct statement of a prodigious...
Página 310 - PRIZE." 2. That this Prize be adjudged once in three years. 3. That it be adjudged for the best original memoir, invention or discovery, in connexion with Mathematico-physical or Mathematico-experimental science that may have been published during the three years immediately preceding...
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Página 182 - The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of the earth. By its heat are produced all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium of the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of lightning, and probably also to those of terrestrial magnetism and the aurora.
Página 137 - In that paper it was demonstrated experimentally, that the mechanical power exerted in turning a magneto-electric machine is converted into the heat evolved by the passage of the currents of induction through its coils; and, on the other hand, that the motive power of the electro-magnetic engine is obtained at the expense of the heat, due to the chemical reaction of the battery by which it is worked.
Página 137 - On the Calorific Effects of Magneto-Electricity, and on the Mechanical Value of Heat.
Página 13 - Mining Tools. A MANUAL OF MINING TOOLS. For the Use of Mine Managers, Agents, Students, &c. By WILLIAM MORGANS, Lecturer on Practical Mining at the Bristol School of Mines.
Página 107 - Andrews' curved lines are to be placed with their planes parallel to one another, and separated by intervals proportional to the differences of the temperatures to which the curves severally belong, and with the origins of coordinates of the curves situated in a straight line perpendicular to their planes, and with th<!