Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society, Volume 18Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society., 1856 |
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... Earth . Description of the globes . Various problems performed thereon , amongst which are , an explana- tion of the phenomena of the harvest - moon and the variations . of the seasons . Conclusion . ' Ex rerum causis supremam noscere ...
... Earth . Description of the globes . Various problems performed thereon , amongst which are , an explana- tion of the phenomena of the harvest - moon and the variations . of the seasons . Conclusion . ' Ex rerum causis supremam noscere ...
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... earth's surface , clouds and rain , and allied phenomena , bringing , as Professor Sedgwick says , " the elements themselves under his own intellectual domination . " The extent and variety of these inquiries prove the earnestness with ...
... earth's surface , clouds and rain , and allied phenomena , bringing , as Professor Sedgwick says , " the elements themselves under his own intellectual domination . " The extent and variety of these inquiries prove the earnestness with ...
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... earth's surface always weighs more in the former season than in the latter ; from which facts we must unavoidably infer that the height of the atmosphere , or at least of the gross parts of it , is less in winter than in summer ...
... earth's surface always weighs more in the former season than in the latter ; from which facts we must unavoidably infer that the height of the atmosphere , or at least of the gross parts of it , is less in winter than in summer ...
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... earth . 2. It has been supposed to be inflammable air , fired by electricity . 3. It has been supposed electric light itself . " " The first of these suppositions I pass by as utterly inadequate to account for the phenomena . The second ...
... earth . 2. It has been supposed to be inflammable air , fired by electricity . 3. It has been supposed electric light itself . " " The first of these suppositions I pass by as utterly inadequate to account for the phenomena . The second ...
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... earth's northern magnetic pole , like as the parallels of latitude do the other poles ; and that the beams are arrayed in equidistant rows round the same pole . Things being thus stated , I moreover suppose that this elastic fluid of ...
... earth's northern magnetic pole , like as the parallels of latitude do the other poles ; and that the beams are arrayed in equidistant rows round the same pole . Things being thus stated , I moreover suppose that this elastic fluid of ...
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Page 125 - 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...
Page 125 - ... 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 divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Page 126 - While the Particles continue entire, they may compose Bodies of one and the same Nature and Texture in all Ages: But should they wear away, or break in pieces, the Nature of Things depending on them, would be changed.
Page 304 - Morley. — A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE of the HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS in the ARABIC and PERSIAN LANGUAGES preserved in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
Page 233 - When any body exists in the elastic state, its ultimate particles are separated from each other to a much greater distance than in any other state; each particle occupies the centre of a comparatively large sphere, and supports its dignity by keeping all the rest, which by their gravity, or otherwise, are disposed to encroach upon it, at a respectful distance.
Page 265 - for the development of the chemical theory of definite proportions, usually called the Atomic Theory, and for his various other labours and discoveries in physical and chemical science.
Page 44 - These facts clearly point out the theory of the process : the elements of oxygen may combine with a certain portion of nitrous gas, or with twice that portion, but with no intermediate quantity.
Page 49 - I have lately been prosecuting this enquiry with remarkable success. The principle cannot be entered upon in this paper ; but I shall just subjoin the results, as far as they appear to be ascertained by my experiments. ** TABLE of the relative weights of the ultimate particles of gaseous and other bodies.
Page 49 - An enquiry into the relative weights of the ultimate particles of bodies is a subject, as far as I know, entirely new : I have lately been prosecuting this enquiry with remarkable success.
Page 96 - 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...