Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art for ...1864 |
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Stran vi
Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art for ... great convenience , both in science and commerce . I can speak from ... fact that there are different measures for fire - wood , for timber , for earth and for stone would cause great ...
Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art for ... great convenience , both in science and commerce . I can speak from ... fact that there are different measures for fire - wood , for timber , for earth and for stone would cause great ...
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Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art for ... resented the difference : " Take a hair and measure it , and you will find that the correction ... fact that rain is only precipitated when cloud exists in a ON THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE . VII.
Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art for ... resented the difference : " Take a hair and measure it , and you will find that the correction ... fact that rain is only precipitated when cloud exists in a ON THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE . VII.
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Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art for ... passed out from the domain of theory , into the province of actual and practical fact . The contributions made to our knowledge by Professor Graham respecting the molecular constitution ...
Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art for ... passed out from the domain of theory , into the province of actual and practical fact . The contributions made to our knowledge by Professor Graham respecting the molecular constitution ...
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... facts wholly and utterly inexplicable , as I believe , by any known and generally received physical laws . I unhesitatingly reject the theory which considers such facts to be produced by means familiar to the best professors of ...
... facts wholly and utterly inexplicable , as I believe , by any known and generally received physical laws . I unhesitatingly reject the theory which considers such facts to be produced by means familiar to the best professors of ...
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Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art for ... general collector . After much reflection , it was decided that the ... fact , that a well sized boat is kept afloat on it for the pur- pose of cleansing . This boat is also provided with ...
Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art for ... general collector . After much reflection , it was decided that the ... fact , that a well sized boat is kept afloat on it for the pur- pose of cleansing . This boat is also provided with ...
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Stran 170 - It is conceivable that the various kinds of matter, now recognized as different elementary substances, may possess one and the same ultimate or atomic molecule existing in different conditions of movement. The essential unity of matter is an hypothesis in harmony with the equal action of gravity upon all bodies. We know the anxiety with which this point was investigated by Newton, and the care he took to ascertain that every kind of substance, ' metals, stones, woods, grain, salts, animal substances,'...
Stran 256 - As with an invisible trowel, the mass is divided and subdivided into smaller and smaller portions, until it is reduced to an aggregation of granules not too large to build withal the finest fabrics of the nascent organism. And, then, it is as if a delicate finger traced out the line to be occupied by the spinal column, and moulded the contour of the body...
Stran 306 - Thus, by means of repeated selection alone, the length of the ears has been doubled, their contents nearly trebled, and the " tillering" power of the seed increased five-fold.
Stran 288 - The Negro exhibits permanently the imperfect brain, projecting lower jaw, and slender bent limbs of a Caucasian child some considerable time before the period of its birth. The aboriginal American represents the same child nearer birth. The Mongolian is an arrested infant newly born. And so forth.
Stran 77 - The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton. So great and grand are they, that, in the contemplation of them, a certain force of character is requisite to preserve us from bewilderment.