Nature, Том 4Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1871 |
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... remarkable ascents ; and the Frenchmen then follow suit . The volume is got up in drawing - room style , as a veritable livre de luxe ; we wish we could transfer to our pages some of the beau- tiful chromo - lithographs by which it is ...
... remarkable ascents ; and the Frenchmen then follow suit . The volume is got up in drawing - room style , as a veritable livre de luxe ; we wish we could transfer to our pages some of the beau- tiful chromo - lithographs by which it is ...
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... remarkable than the mirage represented in our first illustration . " BALLOON F.G. 3 - THE VALVE OF THE " ENTREPRENANT contributors . We have drawings of the weighing machine and pulleys of the great Captive balloon of Chelsea , and Fig ...
... remarkable than the mirage represented in our first illustration . " BALLOON F.G. 3 - THE VALVE OF THE " ENTREPRENANT contributors . We have drawings of the weighing machine and pulleys of the great Captive balloon of Chelsea , and Fig ...
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... remarkable for the conciseness of its definitions ; one of the first is on chemical and physical changes , in which it is said that " physical changes in matter are those which take place outside the molecule ; they do not affect the ...
... remarkable for the conciseness of its definitions ; one of the first is on chemical and physical changes , in which it is said that " physical changes in matter are those which take place outside the molecule ; they do not affect the ...
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... remarkable events which were said to have been observed in " one day . ' I do not put this instance forward as one of very great value , † as the Chronicle of Ingulf is undoubtedly spurious , as shown by Dr. Hickes and Sir Francis ...
... remarkable events which were said to have been observed in " one day . ' I do not put this instance forward as one of very great value , † as the Chronicle of Ingulf is undoubtedly spurious , as shown by Dr. Hickes and Sir Francis ...
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... remarkable events which were said to have been observed in " one day . " I do not put this instance forward as one of very great value , † as the Chronicle of Ingulf is undoubtedly spurious , as shown by Dr. Hickes and Sir Francis ...
... remarkable events which were said to have been observed in " one day . " I do not put this instance forward as one of very great value , † as the Chronicle of Ingulf is undoubtedly spurious , as shown by Dr. Hickes and Sir Francis ...
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Сторінка 269 - It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth...
Сторінка 261 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Сторінка 269 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Сторінка 264 - Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement -and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.
Сторінка 265 - I am purposing them, to be considered of and examined, an account of a philosophical discovery which induced me to the making of the said telescope ; and I doubt not but will prove much more grateful than the communication of that instrument ; being in my judgment the oddest, if not the most considerable detection which hath hitherto been made in the operations of nature.
Сторінка 269 - Hence and because we all confidently believe that there are at present, and have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own, we must regard it as probable in the highest degree that there are countless seed-bearing meteoric stones moving about through space. If at the present instant no life existed upon this earth, one such stone falling upon it might, by what we blindly call natural causes, lead to its becoming covered with vegetation.
Сторінка 29 - If we consider the heavens, the work of his fingers, the moon and the stars which he has ordained...
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Сторінка 237 - Newton and Raphael — are potential in the fires of the sun. We long to learn something of our origin. If the Evolution hypothesis be correct, even this unsatisfied yearning must have come to us across the ages which separate the primeval mist from the consciousness of to-day.
Сторінка 190 - In the schools provided by the Board the Bible shall be read, and there shall be given such- explanations and such instruction therefrom in the principles of morality and religion as are suited to the capacities of children.