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... knowledge ; nay , more , after eighteen centuries of Christian life , experience , and enlightenment , the European has failed to reach the eminence attained by the Nilotic races in some depart- ments of mechanics and chemistry . The ...
... knowledge ; nay , more , after eighteen centuries of Christian life , experience , and enlightenment , the European has failed to reach the eminence attained by the Nilotic races in some depart- ments of mechanics and chemistry . The ...
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... knowledge that had been gathered of the chemical arts in the days . of Rome's highest ambition got scattered to the winds in her decline and fall . Sic transit gloria mundi . In this faint sketch of the progress of chemistry , it is ...
... knowledge that had been gathered of the chemical arts in the days . of Rome's highest ambition got scattered to the winds in her decline and fall . Sic transit gloria mundi . In this faint sketch of the progress of chemistry , it is ...
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... knowledge of many metallic compounds and the stronger acids , and various chemical operations and reactions . The alchemistry of the Middle Ages offered large field for chicanery and charlatanism . There was the alluring search for the ...
... knowledge of many metallic compounds and the stronger acids , and various chemical operations and reactions . The alchemistry of the Middle Ages offered large field for chicanery and charlatanism . There was the alluring search for the ...
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... knowledge of the qualities of the gas . He discovered arseniate of copper , known as a pigment under the name of Scheele's green , and also succeeded in obtaining for the first time the active poison prussic acid in a sepa- rate form ...
... knowledge of the qualities of the gas . He discovered arseniate of copper , known as a pigment under the name of Scheele's green , and also succeeded in obtaining for the first time the active poison prussic acid in a sepa- rate form ...
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... knowledge of electricity , and vision , light , and colour , and would have done vastly more , if he had not suffered dire persecution from Cal- vinistic fanatics . He led a grand and virtuous life , and his memory was gloriously ...
... knowledge of electricity , and vision , light , and colour , and would have done vastly more , if he had not suffered dire persecution from Cal- vinistic fanatics . He led a grand and virtuous life , and his memory was gloriously ...
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Page 125 - Subtle as sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair, And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs ; O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility.
Page 176 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them; and that these primitive particles being solids are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to...
Page 44 - For nature crescent does not grow alone In thews and bulk, but, as this temple waxes, The inward service of the mind and soul Grows wide withal.
Page 207 - Now it is one great object of this work, to show the importance and advantage of ascertaining the relative weights of the ultimate particles both of simple and compound bodies, the number of simple elementary particles which constitute one compound particle, and the number of less compound particles which enter into the formation of one more compound particle.
Page 38 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
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Page 164 - There is a strong propensity which dances through every atom, and attracts the minutest particle to some peculiar object ; search this universe from its base to its summit, from fire to air, from water to earth, from all below the moon to all above the celestial spheres, and thou wilt not find a corpuscle destitute of that natural attractibility...
Page 206 - In all chemical investigations, it has justly been considered an important object to ascertain the relative weights of the simples which constitute a compound. But unfortunately the enquiry has terminated here; whereas from the relative weights in the mass, the relative weights of the ultimate particles or atoms of the bodies might have been inferred, from which their number and weight in various other compounds would appear...
Page 134 - ... 3. The quantity of any liquid evaporated in the open air is directly as the force of steam from such liquid at its temperature, all other circumstances being the same.