Nature, Том 23Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1881 |
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... inch thick of ice , in consequence of the starlight radiation of a clear summer's night . I have before me a list of twenty - four species of bamboo canes cultivated in most of the gardens of Europe , but they are all , with the ...
... inch thick of ice , in consequence of the starlight radiation of a clear summer's night . I have before me a list of twenty - four species of bamboo canes cultivated in most of the gardens of Europe , but they are all , with the ...
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... inch bore , open at both ends , packed the stem loosely with cotton wool , but left the bulb free at one end of the tube . I then enveloped the whole in a silk handkerchief and breathed through twelve folds of the material into the end ...
... inch bore , open at both ends , packed the stem loosely with cotton wool , but left the bulb free at one end of the tube . I then enveloped the whole in a silk handkerchief and breathed through twelve folds of the material into the end ...
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... inches to 5 feet 6 inches . The circumference of the heads averages 22'1 inches , and the arc , from ear to ear , 13 inches . According to Mr. Davies the average weight of the Aino adult masculine brain , ascertained by measurement of ...
... inches to 5 feet 6 inches . The circumference of the heads averages 22'1 inches , and the arc , from ear to ear , 13 inches . According to Mr. Davies the average weight of the Aino adult masculine brain , ascertained by measurement of ...
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... inches long Tainter finally settled upon the ingenious device to be leading to a mouthpiece . A second lens R , interposed in described . A number of round brass disks , about two the beam of light after reflection at the little mirror ...
... inches long Tainter finally settled upon the ingenious device to be leading to a mouthpiece . A second lens R , interposed in described . A number of round brass disks , about two the beam of light after reflection at the little mirror ...
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... inch thick and 10 inches wide. THURSDAY , NOVEMBER 11 , 1880 DR . SIEMENS'S NEW CURE FOR SMOKE THEgroping of London ... inch behind the bottom bar of the grate to make room for a half - inch gas - pipe f , which is perforated with holes ...
... inch thick and 10 inches wide. THURSDAY , NOVEMBER 11 , 1880 DR . SIEMENS'S NEW CURE FOR SMOKE THEgroping of London ... inch behind the bottom bar of the grate to make room for a half - inch gas - pipe f , which is perforated with holes ...
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Сторінка 326 - I felt the sentiment of Being spread O'er all that moves and all that seemeth still, O'er all that, lost beyond the reach of thought And human knowledge, to the human eye Invisible, yet liveth to the heart ; O'er all that leaps and runs, and shouts and sings, Or beats the gladsome air ; o'er all that glides Beneath the wave, yea, in the wave itself, And mighty depth of waters.
Сторінка 312 - Beagle," as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts, as will be seen in the later chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers.
Сторінка 81 - Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, through continuous differentiations and integrations...
Сторінка 101 - On which the comment may be that one who had studied celestial mechanics as much as the reviewer has studied the general course of transformations, might similarly have remarked that the formula — " bodies attract one another directly as their masses and inversely as the squares of their distances," was at best but a blank form for solar systems and sidereal clusters.
Сторінка 326 - All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and, in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.
Сторінка 312 - On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years...
Сторінка 67 - For it suggests that there is a sort of scientific knowledge of direct practical use, which can be studied apart from another sort of scientific knowledge, which is of no practical utility, and which is termed "pure science.
Сторінка 227 - Judged from this point of view, there can be no doubt that the Monotremes embody that type of structure which constitutes the earliest stage of mammalian organisation : — 1.
Сторінка 302 - The above experiments appear to prove conclusively that the surface fauna of the sea is really limited to a comparatively narrow belt in depth, and that there is no intermediate belt, so to speak, of animal life, between those living on the bottom, or close to it, and the surface pelagic fauna.
Сторінка 100 - Without further remark we shall give Newton's Three Laws ; it being remembered that as the properties of matter might have been such as to render a totally different set of laws axiomatic, these laws must be considered as resting on convictions drawn from observation and experiment and not on intuitive perception?