Nature, Količina 113

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Sir Norman Lockyer
Macmillan Journals Limited, 1924
 

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Stran 99 - The seasons alter : hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose : And on old Hyems' chin and icy crown, An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set.
Stran 195 - Some of which were then but new discoveries, and others not so generally known and imbraced, as now they are, with other things appertaining to what hath been called The New Philosophy, which from the times of Galileo at Florence, and Sir Francis Bacon (Lord Verulam) in England, hath been much cultivated in Italy, France, Germany, and other parts abroad, as well as with us in England.
Stran 268 - Shortly after the shock, a great wave was seen from the distance of three or four miles, approaching in the middle of the bay with a smooth outline ; but along the shore it tore up cottages and trees, as it swept onwards with irresistible force.
Stran 195 - Saturn, the spots in the sun, and its turning on its own axis", the inequalities and selenography of the moon, the several phases of Venus and Mercury, the improvement of telescopes, and grinding of glasses for that purpose, the weight of air, the possibility, or impossibility of vacuities, and nature's abhorrence thereof, the Torricellian experiment in quicksilver, the descent of heavy bodies, and the degrees of acceleration therein ; and divers other things of like nature.
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Stran 122 - Induction appears to consist in a certain polarized state of the particles into which they are thrown by the electrified body sustaining the action, the particles assuming positive and negative points or parts, which are symmetrically arranged with respect to each other and the inducting surfaces or particles.
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Stran 224 - ... be awarded by the Committee at such times as they may determine on the recommendation of the School Committee, after due notice has been given that the Scholarship is vacant by advertisement or otherwise. The purpose for which the Scholarship is founded, as stated by the Will of the Founder, is to enable a " young man to continue his pathological researches and at the same time to secure his services to the School of Advanced Medical Studies connected with University College Hospital as a Teacher...
Stran 327 - Shapley estimates to he 25,000 times as distant as Sirius. This cluster is so remote that its light takes 200,000 years to reach us ; even for light to cross the cluster takes hundreds of years. To all appearances the star-cloud NGC 6822 is still more remote. According to Shapley its distance is about six million million million miles, a distance which light takes a million years to traverse So far as is known at present this brings us to the end of our universe, or perhaps I ought to say, it brings...

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