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... weight . " Moreover , that this spirit or body pneumatical , was only another name for what Hippocrates and other Greek authors called Depμov heat , ( and sometimes TvEvμa spirit , ) is equally manifest from the fact , that Bacon ...
... weight . " Moreover , that this spirit or body pneumatical , was only another name for what Hippocrates and other Greek authors called Depμov heat , ( and sometimes TvEvμa spirit , ) is equally manifest from the fact , that Bacon ...
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... weight of solid iron , he arrived at the conclusion , that heat is not a material substance , but the mere effect of motion . ( Philosophical Transactions , 1798. ) But it will be shown hereafter , that what is called capacity or ...
... weight of solid iron , he arrived at the conclusion , that heat is not a material substance , but the mere effect of motion . ( Philosophical Transactions , 1798. ) But it will be shown hereafter , that what is called capacity or ...
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... weight of gold , silver , iron , or copper , it would raise them to a red heat , and perhaps convert them into flame , or incandescent luminous vapour . That the particles of all bodies are surrounded by an elastic medium , which ...
... weight of gold , silver , iron , or copper , it would raise them to a red heat , and perhaps convert them into flame , or incandescent luminous vapour . That the particles of all bodies are surrounded by an elastic medium , which ...
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... weight of atmospheric air , or any other gas , as will be shewn hereafter . In accordance with the above facts , it is well known that sound is transmitted more C and recombination . When I come to treat of the ATTRIBUTES OF A PRIMARY ...
... weight of atmospheric air , or any other gas , as will be shewn hereafter . In accordance with the above facts , it is well known that sound is transmitted more C and recombination . When I come to treat of the ATTRIBUTES OF A PRIMARY ...
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... greater amount of caloric around its particles than the same weight of iron , although less than an equal bulk of iron . water . of rain within the tropics , except in desert places 18 AGENCY OF CALORIC IN METEOROLOGY .
... greater amount of caloric around its particles than the same weight of iron , although less than an equal bulk of iron . water . of rain within the tropics , except in desert places 18 AGENCY OF CALORIC IN METEOROLOGY .
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Page 480 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres ! Once bless our human ears (If ye have power to touch our senses so), And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Page ii - Thus calmly spake the venerable Sage, " An active Principle : — howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures ; in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds, In flower and tree, in every pebbly stone That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks, The moving waters, and the invisible air.
Page 259 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Page 468 - Let us adore the supremacy of that divine Sun, the Godhead, who illuminates all, who recreates all, from whom all proceed, to whom all must return, whom we invoke to direct our understandings aright in our progress towards his holy seat.
Page 28 - Some say, he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth, twice ten degrees and more, From the sun's axle ; they with labour push'd Oblique the centric globe.
Page 20 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
Page 508 - To every form of being is assigned An active principle, howe'er removed From sense and observation ; it subsists In all things, in all natures, in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds, In flower and tree, and every pebbly stone That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks, The moving waters, and the invisible air.
Page 474 - The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep.
Page 16 - I wish we could derive the rest of the phenomena of Nature by the same kind of reasoning from mechanical principles, for I am induced by many reasons to suspect that they...
Page 161 - And to shew that I do not take Gravity for an essential Property of Bodies, I have added one Question concerning its Cause, chusing to propose it by way of a Question, because I am not yet satisfied about it for want of Experiments.